Anyone who has looked at "common core math" knows something went wrong in modern education in the United States. 

What no one has shared with you yet is the way in which the accounting education was "futzed up" decades before in a similar way.   By "futzed up", we mean "simple was made complicated via confusion for control purposes only, with no community benefits". 

Futzing up education in such a way keeps the potential in people bottled up.  It is a form of energetic suppression.  

Futzing up education  keeps all people, both gifted and challenged, away from a simpler peace and prosperity.  

Common Core Math is the tail end of the hoax. The beginning started out far more subtle.  With addition and subtraction, it actually started in Bookkeeping and Accounting., or so it seems today anyway. 

1. From the perspective of Commerce and Commercial Literacy, you were never told to properly separate the ideas of Accounting,  Finance, and true Money Management.  They allowed those ideas to blur together. They relied on your own perspective to blur those together further. With a proper separation of concepts there, which takes about 5 minutes to gain, a better framework for learning is clarified.
   
   

2. When talking about Accounting,  the separation of sales systems from payment methods from bookkeeping (in a formal sense) was never clarified in a framework that would make things easy to understand and learn.  With another 5 minutes in to a proper education you have a more resolute framework for learning  established.
   
   

3. On the Sales System side of things few are taught the importance of "sales reports",  separate from sales income reports.  The rate at which money is earned is often times more important to review first than the timing of money inflows.  In fact the rate of money inflows may not be important at all if the sales are sufficient and there are cash reserves and/or credit that is ample to ignore the details others over focus on or over manage for one flawed reason or another.
   
   

4. On the Bookkeeping side of things the two most relevant reports are an Income Statement and a Balance Sheet. What they did to the report names alone was blasphemous but not the only acts of Confusion by any means. 
   
   

   1. 1. The report name, "Income Statement" is cognitively confusing to the extent that it can cause cognitive dissonance. .If you've ever looked at one, it has more details about "not income" than "income".  Furthermore, the singular value at the end is not called income by most.  Why create a cognitively confusing report name when another far more functional name would have made more sense and been more "logical" ?  Who would intentionally do something like that and Why?
         
         

      2. As for the Balance Sheet, the confusion there is worse.  It is in fact a Balance Report so in that sense the title initially sounds okay.  However, to pass any proficiency test a student had to declare the balance sheet was 1) a snapshot in time  and 2) it was always prepared for a singular date not a date range.  Yet, to prepare a balance sheet, you had to have two dates, but they never put both on the report? Without both dates, anyone looking at the report alone couldn't easily make an sense of it and they couldn't even figure out what they were balancing or why it would ever be out of balance.  There is a better name for this report that more clearly aligns with what it does and how it works too.  Confusion was maximized for no reason other than to push people away.
         
         

5. The nature, importance and relevance of the words "debit" and "credit" were overblown in modern education.  The testing was used to suggest you use memory for accounting, when nothing could be further from the truth.  The words themselves seemed to have been chosen for confusion purposes as well.  If they had been called "increases" and "decreases" you'd have been far better off from the beginning. 
   
   

6. Since the 1980s, Digital Accounting was NEVER taught on the proper digital platform with a more fully developed data model than what was shown to Bookkeeping and Accounting aspirants back then.   The proper digital platform was spreadsheets, but it then required a fascinating data model that mimicked manual accounting.   For some reason that was never put into the public domain, and that only finally saw the light of day in mid 2020 as COVID began to rage.   

Mysteriously, from the 1980s until 2020, that "simple template"  and "simple system" was not published by over 1 MILLION CPAs,  Accounting Professors, or the Educational Institutions that were profiting off of  multi-year educational programs that could have been done in days or weeks. 

There's more as well,  but this is A LARGE CHUNK off the top level of the grift and the hoax.