Abstract: released a study entitled BMath Instruction that Makes Sense 1 : Defending Traditional Instruction.^However, the FCPP released the report to the media via an FCPP Commentary entitled, BNew Math is Failing our Students: Teaching techniques leave students without a solid foundation.^AsAbtahi and Barwell (this volume) note, B… public media reporting shapes the way in which the general public comprehends mathematics education, including approaches to instruction and curriculum, as well as the key stakeholders involved.^Theuse of the term Bnew math^was clever, I contend, because it equated the more recent changes taking place in Canadian mathematics classrooms with the failed, dramatic overhaul of the way mathematics was taught that took place in the 1960s, which was known as new math.Any discerning parent or guardian-those who had either heard about or perhaps even experienced firsthand the horrors of new math-immediately questioned what was happening in math class. 2 Here on the Canadian prairies, new math became a staple of stories 3 found in newspapers, on the radio, and on television.With all the prairie press, new math not only became a topic of discussion from coast to coast to coast but it concurrently introduced the country to the Western Initiative for Strengthening Education in Math-better known as WISE Math-who, without opposition, 4 quickly became the de facto voice for the back-to-basics movement in mathematics teaching and learning in Canada.As Abtahi and Barwell (this volume) note, Bthese news stories are not simply messages; they frame a structure for their audience to think with.^With the sheer amount of press being garnered by WISE Math, the Saskatchewan Government soon began to have second thoughts about the new mathematics curriculum they had just introduced.In December 2011, the Saskatchewan Government ordered a review of