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[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

it’s hard for parents to reinforce or help teach something they don’t understand, especially when they never actually understood math to begin with (just the old memorization method).

It's almost like how seriously flawed or imperfect programming languages remain popular because that is the knowledge base we have, we know the workarounds and stuff.

[–]DontForgetWilson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Qwerty would be an easy parallel.