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There are two great responses here that read your points and the source material and come to the same conclusion. You have not made a point.

Why not try? Because this is the wrong method. Kids hardly learn math as it is. Confounding their learning with other factors will only make the whole situation worse.

Read these comments and try to understand why people are opposed to these methods. Force divisive topics into the classroom and no one will learn