 Common-core math is in the United States literally ruined math for a whole generation and Beyond because what they did right Contra by the way, Hannah, I hope you're okay. I'm factoring. I'm not dealing with it yet I just want to take care of all that Right That's thought of the word. Yeah, masquerade was horrendous, but Contra They didn't just ruin math for a whole generation because what they did they made More than one generation really to three generations illiterate in the language of mathematics So as soon as you do that that generation for the most part not all of them, but On average illiterate in the language of mathematics and in Canada as well, right? Illiterate in the language of mathematics and those generations Grow up and have children of their own now. They don't know math Right, so when their kids come home from school with math questions that generation doesn't know mathematics So it's a perpetual thing. It's a very You know, we're not supposed to talk about politics on these math streams, but it's very typical Colonial imperialist type of maneuver, right? Because when they take over imperial nations when they take over a land somewhere The first thing you do you take out a certain tradition for two to three generations and then future generations are also lost We we can see that happening with the indigenous population in Canada United States, right? Destroyed for a number of generations and left a rock, right now They had to build themselves back up and they're doing a fantastic job doing it But it takes a tremendous amount of effort to do it, right? So common core math was exactly this strategy used by imperialist nations to take over lands, right? I Know it's politics. I apologize, but it is about education, right? Yeah, but that's just a part of the system Chichu was talking about major underfunding of public education common core is just a symptom Yeah, what common core is actually good though not that I've seen it might be now, but when I Went to middle school eight years ago. It felt it. I felt it was not a good system I've had encounters with kids who have gone through common core and I Brutal brutal. I've never seen a good arguments against it. It was a money pit I looked at the how much money was wasted for this whole process It's centralization of its creation education and that's a whole Branch whole discussion on its own the textbooks that they sell are just pure garbage that they put together is basically more Monopolies given to certain institution to create textbooks to provide to common core, which is just garbage, right? If you've never heard a good argument against it, you've never talked to anyone that understood it Okay Big or big brain most kids have trouble with math instruction is hard Not necessarily we when you say most kids have trouble with math Which kids are we talking about are we talking about the kids in Canada the United States? Or are we talking about kids in Russia? South Korea Africa France UK South America Bolivia Brazil Venezuela kids where? The one thing you have to appreciate is when people say oh kids are having a hard time with math if you look at the statistics Oh, it's kids in Canada the United States are having a hard time with math the ones I've looked at But when I interact with kids from different parts of the world, they don't have a problem with math They love math. They're pretty good at math, right? So it's not the kids It's the system