The topics and methods of traditional mathematics are well documented in books and open source articles of many nations and languages.
Indeed, contemporary work in descriptive set theory makes extensive use of traditional continuous mathematics.
Formalized mathematics does not yet resemble real, traditional mathematics.
However, the original guidelines continue to draw fire from well-meaning parents and community members, some of whom advocate a return to traditional mathematics.
Instead, the contest emphasizes problem solving skill within traditional middle-school mathematics.
That framework has since been discredited and abandoned as misguided and replaced by a newer standard based on traditional mathematics.
This series attempts to combine the best of traditional and modern mathematics, and is based upon many years of experience teaching both approaches to the subject.
Additionally, it argues that for fundamental reasons these types of systems, rather than traditional mathematics, are needed to model and understand complexity in nature.
To Wolfram, traditional mathematics was failing to meaningfully describe the complexity seen in the systems he examined.
When California reversed course and adopted more traditional mathematics texts (2001 - 2002), Mathematically Correct changed its focus to reviewing the new text books.