Ding Gih-jen, head of the Jendo Education Society, says that making teaching materials simpler does not necessarily cause students 'ability to regress. If children are failing to learn, the problem may lie in the teaching methods, rather than the textbooks being too simple. Scholars should not look at elementary- and high-school mathematics merely from the point of view of elite education.
振鐸學會理事長丁志仁指出，教材簡化，學生的能力不一定就因此退步，問題可能出在教的方法，以致小朋友沒學會，而不是教得太簡單，學者們不宜站在菁英教學的角度看中小學的數學。