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Re:Math teachers should be more like football coaches by devoply on Sunday May 12, 2019 @11:13AM (#19892381)
Perform brain imaging, split students into those with a strong math co-processor brain and those without. For those without, teach them math using logic rather than rote learning which is obvious to those with a strong math brain.
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Re:Math teachers should be more like football coaches by scoopdewoop on Sunday May 12, 2019 @11:18AM (#19892412)
What an absurd, elitist, reductive, sci-fi response. Brains don't have ALUs in them, btw. Nor can we image for different skills. Nor should we subject people to this kind of dystopian hierarchy of faulty biological determinism.
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Re:Math teachers should be more like football coaches by spaceprison on Sunday May 12, 2019 @05:47PM (#19894780)
I agree, perhaps brain scans aren't an option, but I do think two tracks based on some kind of testing makes a lot of sense.

I really struggled with the rote path and it wasn't until I could see more of the "why" and where it applies to practical situations that it all started to click.

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Re:Math teachers should be more like football coaches by labgrown on Sunday May 12, 2019 @11:40AM (#19892548)
You don't need brain imaging to sort out those with a natural talent and affinity for math, the challenge of an education system is to maximize the level of those without such affinities.
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Re:Math teachers should be more like football coaches by thatcat on Sunday May 12, 2019 @12:23PM (#19892818)
That's not how football is approached. I think GP's point is that football is approached by selecting for those with the most potential and maximizing that and that math teachers can't be like football coaches really.
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