What is our plan of action?
We hope to get society to look into this blindspot instead of away. Too misquote someone here: “It’s the CONTENT dummy!"
Step 1 is to release the WEHM manual is any format: written, a website, videos or all of the above.
Given substantial resonance, a tutoring franchises based on the book will be launched. This will be a completely different than any other existing math help service: the first to actually take the students side rather than defend or repeat school-math blindly.
Is this about the Common Core standards?
This is a very common (no pun intended) misconception, not to say platitude. While the mathematics Common Core has some problems in the later grades, it is not the order of the topics (Common Core) that is causing the problem, it is the actual material, the mathematical CONTENT (Pearsons etc.).
Is this a separate system I have to learn?
No it is not. This is just a MAP of the labyrinth you are in, nothing more and nothing less. All you have to do is use the index/search function.
Will my teacher take points off if I do it your way?
Take a look at this example to see why that is never the case. The manual never makes you actually do something else than school-math. It explains exactly what the teacher is doing and how to do what they want from you without going crazy. Then the manual also offers better ways that get you the answer faster that you can choose to use or not .The manual even often gives advice on how to make an easier way look like you’re doing what they want in school math, so you get the points for sure. Basically after 30 years of tutoring and getting results my advice is all about getting those points not anything else!
I was in a school that (supposedly) had a revolutionary curriculum, yet I didn't understand a thing. Am I bad at math?
No.