yeah, Algebra should be taught as early as second grade like they do in Egypt.
4 days ago | 9
It isn’t just math. Math is just the symptom. The real problem is that students are unable to do difficult things with their mind. Math is difficult and easy to measure, so we can see the problem. More dangerous is the universal decline in cognitive fitness across every meaningful domain.
3 days ago | 6
👨🏽🦳: Son, do you think verbal skills are declining ? 👦🏼: ( stomps tw
4 days ago | 4
It's obviously by design. American education has been controlled by the large foundations of the historically wealthy for generations now. Their agenda has always been to create compliant workers, not thinkers. They knew that with increased automation there would be less need for highly educated and well paid workers, so they are creating compliant, mentally weak slaves
4 days ago (edited) | 9
One big problem is that we focused so hard on teaching mathematics in grade school and high school but consistently don't provide opportunities for students to use it in an effective way, even in the classroom. And that also translates into talented students not pursuing math-focused careers because outside of a few high profile science and financial jobs there aren't many real-world opportunities that an average high school kid can see to use tools like calculus and statistics and those high profile jobs are extremely expensive and exclusive.
4 days ago | 3
What happens? Fail them. Don't lower the standards. If you lower the standards, it contributes to more problems.
3 days ago | 1
Aw too bad, are the consequences of conservative politics and cutthroat capitalism starting to appear? Maybe maximal profit extraction from money lenders was a bad idea.
3 days ago | 3
I went back to university in my late 30s and realized I had forgotten nearly everything about algebra. I had do a crash course refresher while taking a calculus course. I'd never taken geotrig in high school so that was a whole other challenge since calculus also involves angle functions as well.
4 days ago | 2
maybe it’s time we reevaluate those standards? What’s the 50% that’s actually necessary for people to understand conceptually, and focus on that. Rather than cramming down so much that students end up confused, overstressed and hating an entire subject.
4 days ago | 2
Would you stop it with this clickbaitey bullshit. "These people are bad at my thing" - Person who has dedicated 30 years to thing and no insight Advanced mathematical skills are not required by everyone, most ideas can be approximated and we are not in need of yet another moral panic.
3 days ago (edited) | 1
The hilarious part is when you look at the demographics it's all African American and Hispanic students 😂
4 days ago | 2
Well MAGAts are now 100% against Arabic numerals so you'll have to re-invent new numerals for them to use.
4 days ago | 10
The Atlantic
An increasing number of college students are arriving on campus with math skills that don't meet middle-school standards. Rose Horowitch reports on what’s behind the national decline in mathematical ability: theatln.tc/JkU2RaB5
🎨: Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic
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