I have, actually; I was a co-PI on this. Maybe you are confusing curricula with standards? There are, and have been for several years, several math curricula which de-emphasize algorithms to the point where students are probably being damaged. There are others which are somewhat better. All of these, good and bad, are in the process of being adapted to the Common Core, which specifies minimal sets of achievements for various grade levels, but it doesn’t mandate teaching strategies; unfortunately, these bad texts were around long before anyone mentioned the common core.
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