Lol they stopped teaching kids how to sound words out and instead taught them whole word reading for a few years. Whole word reading is something every advanced reader does, but when they tried to circumvent the basics and teach that to kids.. Well I'm sure you've heard the story. Didn't work out so well. Common Core will lead to the exact same thing. Advanced users of arithmetic use that trick to come to easy solutions (though honestly in this case it's less efficient and taxing than if you actually had memorized a table). But that's the thing, ADVANCED users do it. You can't circumvent foundational knowledge and trach advanced problem solving tactics and expect it to work out well. In this case, we have hard evidence that it in fact does not work out and is actually detrimental.
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