Personal Concerns and Next Steps

There are many concerns that I have with this new method of math. I understand that exploring the concepts of math is important but it makes me wonder how the students are supposed to learn the basic skills of math. When I think of math I think of a set of rules and formulas and that help us find an ending number. Personally I am not a big fan of math to begin with so I dont exactly enjoy exploring math. How do you motivate children to want to explore math? I guess to me it is something very different and it is something that I will need to get used to. However, I do see a lot of classes besides math getting more into the explore and discover method of teaching rather than telling children what to know. It will be interesting to see how teaching changes in the next few years.