Also American, but was routed through, what was at the time, an experimental program called Integrated Math. Class was structured around word problems and the students were guided towards figuring out the formulas rather than rote memorization.
There was a ton of group work, which worked out really well for me, but if you didn't want to learn it was pretty easy to coast and let the group leader do most of the work / learning.
There was a ton of group work, which worked out really well for me, but if you didn't want to learn it was pretty easy to coast and let the group leader do most of the work / learning.