Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
by kyawzazaw on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:46PM
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A bit too late if you are comparing to football level of specialization to produce people like messi
Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
by angled on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:39PM
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One such school:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AME_School
The kids that went there … some succeeded, some really struggled to adjust to other schools and environments.
Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
by db48x on Saturday October 26, 2024 @12:02PM
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> In 1992, there was a proposal to fully integrate the AME school with the ACT Government school system. However the idea floundered after the ACT Teachers Union amongst other things, knocked the idea on the head, due to compatibility issues. It felt the idea of having a school principal having selection over teaching staff was outside the scope of the Unions control. It came out fighting against the proposal.
Now there’s a depressing thing to read. Teacher’s unions are the worst.
Personally I think that we could do better by tailoring every student’s education to their abilities. Put in simplest possible terms, we could arrange classes by complexity rather than by year. Have one class for addition and subtraction, another for multiplication and division, then geometry, algebra, etc, etc. Then let students graduate from one to the next based on proven ability rather than by age. Do the same for language, history, etc. Let every student proceed through the courses at their own speed.