Yes, it seems to be more-more-more-faster-more-faster-faster.
There's no time to teach set theory or deductive reasoning and construction of proofs. Nope. We're too busy teaching even secondary students with food and manipulatives to "enliven" the curriculum (hey, maybe the problem isn't that the kids need to be entertained so much as that you need to actually TEACH THEM SOMETHING REAL), and throwing practice tests at kids. They won't see any proofs on standardized tests... so why teach it...
(Maddening.)
The problem with even those handful of challenging problems is that if you're not speedy Gonzales with a calculator, you seldom have ENOUGH time to really dig into them there at the end of the section. DD had that problem with the geometry problems-- she was spending time ENJOYING them.
