I am a product of “new math” — a program that made little to no sense to me and didn’t seem to have anything to do with math.
I still struggle to this day!!
And, my dad was a professor of math and physics.
He said he couldn’t understand why anyone would think teaching the way “new math” instructed would be a good idea. He told me after “new math” students were coming into the university (not easy to get into) with a profound lack of knowledge in math — couldn’t do the simplest of operations especially fractions.