Re:How America's universities became debt factories
by pokerface_86 on Monday September 16, 2024 @01:29PM
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no one actually good at math is going to become a K-5 teacher, they’re gonna get paid, so it creates a doom loop where each new generation of primary school teachers get progressively shittier at math.
Re:How America's universities became debt factories
by WalterBright on Monday September 16, 2024 @09:54PM
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There's a reason why 3rd grade "teachers' edition" textbooks for math exist. It's because those teachers need an answer key for 100+200.
As for "good at math", it's hard to see how a teacher with a degree can fail at 3rd grade arithmetic.
Re:How America's universities became debt factories
by pokerface_86 on Monday September 16, 2024 @09:59PM
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i have literally witnessed students in a senior level discrete math class struggle with simple algebraic operations. they were on the math education track.
Ya the arithmetic is easy. Building up the associated algebraic expression(s) though is certainly high school level where I’m from.
I wish I understood why math education is the way it is. I really have no idea. I suspect the problem’s complexities are both wide and deep