So who am I

Hi, My name is Albert Woicicki, and my students called me Mr. W. while I was teaching high school.   During those 29 years, I found, that as I had learned so well with patterns, so did my students.  However, many of my students came to me without having much of a background in patterns.  I also, was surprised to have students come to me with unusual concept beliefs, and that many were afraid of math.
I promised myself that upon retirement I would write a book on the concepts of arithmetic, as I see them being taught.  I have done that, and it is now being edited and necessary drawings are being added.  I have also written the skeleton of 65 lessons for the internet that follows the book.  Because of the comments of a friend, I also added a section to the book for parents and guardians of our children.  I did this, because as she said it is hard to understand the new texts.  My notes are there to reassure them that Math has not changed, but some of the words are different and there are some new terms.
I do not believe that elementary school teachers teach the wrong concepts.  However, I do believe what they are asked to do is a mile wide and an inch deep.  That is, they are forced to teach a ton of tiny concepts that the students find difficult to tie together.  Then they are asked to spend so much time testing they do not have enough time to connect the dots.
I have tremendous respect for these warriors or education that are asked to teach so much, about so many different things, much of which they have spent little time studying.  Yet, they do a great job, day after day, year after year.  I only hope I can be of help to them.