Re:You Are Not Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites
by zvmaz on Sunday August 25, 2024 @12:13AM
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I struggle with the self-checkout machine. I am a simpleton. I bow to your intelligence.
Re:You Are Not Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites
by agumonkey on Monday August 26, 2024 @04:03PM
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I believe this sort of brain structure is inherited more than nurtured. You can spot differences as early as 4 years old.
Re:You Are Not Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites
by sudosysgen on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:55PM
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It is possible to teach math to this population, I've done it briefly when I was a teacher in an adult education school.
It's significantly slower than for average people and requires a ridiculous amount of effort on the part of the teacher and student, but it's possible.
Due to limited working memory many of these students will make mistake no matter how difficult the material is, and they will be slow at resolving problems, but I've never had a student without serious mental health issues be unable to get to precalculus level, and in the ones I've seen try they've been able to get to university math.
Again, many will always make more mistakes and/or be slow, but the concepts themselves are generally within grasp.
Maybe with better nutrition, childhood conditions, and healthcare a good portion of this group could have been promoted into a different group, but the idea that everyone just needs better prereqs and they'd learn math better isn't right. The article itself was written by someone who manages their own website.