Tom Lehrer's “New Math” with an animated 1960s satire
Jared Khan · Comedy · YouTube title: Tom Lehrer - New Math (Animated)
Why it's here
HN brings it up whenever curriculum fads or Common Core complaints appear, as a funny precedent from the 1960s.
What it covers
An amateur animation of Tom Lehrer's satirical song New Math, which pokes fun at 1960s math teaching and subtraction in base 8. The animation illustrates the old and new subtraction methods.