Why so much hate for Math?

[Anonymous]

Every time someone posts about Math acceleration, a mob of posters jump in as if the accelerators are committing sacrilege.

We never hear complaints about kids taking AP social sciences. What gives?

[Anonymous]

You must be new to DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Because some DCUM posters think nothing of paying more than 10K for travel sports and giving their kids repetitive strain injuries from a young age, but GOD FORBID that they be accused of being Tiger Parents and push their kids into improving their cognitive reasoning skills with MATH. Then they'd be like ASIAN ROBOTS (yes, they're racist too).

[Anonymous]

Most DCUM posters assume that outside math enrichment, participation in contests, and acceleration happen due to the parents' interest and not the child's. They have a hard time imagining that some children love math and would choose to do math competitions or classes over other activities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because some DCUM posters think nothing of paying more than 10K for travel sports and giving their kids repetitive strain injuries from a young age, but GOD FORBID that they be accused of being Tiger Parents and push their kids into improving their cognitive reasoning skills with MATH. Then they'd be like ASIAN ROBOTS (yes, they're racist too).

I’m not comparing math to sports. I actually think it’s better to do physical activity when you’re young. If I had to push my child I’d push them for sports, because it’s a health gain.

The point I made was for other sedentary activities, such as reading for example. Tons of parents would rather have their child read excessively then do math. They are all ok with taking AP English or AP history or AP psychology, but lord forbid if they could take multivariate calculus.

They somehow feel that it’s better to do all those other things and not math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every time someone posts about Math acceleration, a mob of posters jump in as if the accelerators are committing sacrilege.

We never hear complaints about kids taking AP social sciences. What gives?

I don’t remember anyone ever commenting that they oppose all acceleration.

Stupid strawman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because some DCUM posters think nothing of paying more than 10K for travel sports and giving their kids repetitive strain injuries from a young age, but GOD FORBID that they be accused of being Tiger Parents and push their kids into improving their cognitive reasoning skills with MATH. Then they'd be like ASIAN ROBOTS (yes, they're racist too).

I’m not comparing math to sports. I actually think it’s better to do physical activity when you’re young. If I had to push my child I’d push them for sports, because it’s a health gain.

The point I made was for other sedentary activities, such as reading for example. Tons of parents would rather have their child read excessively then do math. They are all ok with taking AP English or AP history or AP psychology, but lord forbid if they could take multivariate calculus.

They somehow feel that it’s better to do all those other things and not math.

Not sure most would agree with you. Those that do accelerated math also do acceleration in all other areas too- and actually, often also in sports and/or music or other fine arts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because some DCUM posters think nothing of paying more than 10K for travel sports and giving their kids repetitive strain injuries from a young age, but GOD FORBID that they be accused of being Tiger Parents and push their kids into improving their cognitive reasoning skills with MATH. Then they'd be like ASIAN ROBOTS (yes, they're racist too).

I’m not comparing math to sports. I actually think it’s better to do physical activity when you’re young. If I had to push my child I’d push them for sports, because it’s a health gain.

The point I made was for other sedentary activities, such as reading for example. Tons of parents would rather have their child read excessively then do math. They are all ok with taking AP English or AP history or AP psychology, but lord forbid if they could take multivariate calculus.

They somehow feel that it’s better to do all those other things and not math.

Why are you fabricating this narrative?

Troll is bored?

[Anonymous]

It makes it tough for teachers who have to teach to many levels in the classroom since have boatloads of outside access to math and others have none. The acceleration of math has become a scramble for parents over the past couple of decades as they push their kids to higher math before their peers—all in an effort to get to a higher college, etc. It’s become over done and over-sized just like travel sports. Everything is over-challenged in a race to nowhere as the peers will be sitting along one another in jobs eventually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most DCUM posters assume that outside math enrichment, participation in contests, and acceleration happen due to the parents' interest and not the child's. They have a hard time imagining that some children love math and would choose to do math competitions or classes over other activities.

Like most things, it is a little of both. Kids like what they are good at, so if you start enrichment and acceleration at a young age, they'll start feeling successful at math and be more inclined to want to do competitive math. And if it doesn't take, they'll let you know that, too, and you adjust.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because some DCUM posters think nothing of paying more than 10K for travel sports and giving their kids repetitive strain injuries from a young age, but GOD FORBID that they be accused of being Tiger Parents and push their kids into improving their cognitive reasoning skills with MATH. Then they'd be like ASIAN ROBOTS (yes, they're racist too).

I’m not comparing math to sports. I actually think it’s better to do physical activity when you’re young. If I had to push my child I’d push them for sports, because it’s a health gain.

The point I made was for other sedentary activities, such as reading for example. Tons of parents would rather have their child read excessively then do math. They are all ok with taking AP English or AP history or AP psychology, but lord forbid if they could take multivariate calculus.

They somehow feel that it’s better to do all those other things and not math.

It's mostly an American phenomenon.

Almost anywhere else in the world math is pretty front and center. But Americans seem to feel like math kills childhoods or some silly shit like that.

[Anonymous]

Because they struggle with calculus if they decide to become engineers in college because it’s been so long since they’ve taken the basic maths that they need to pass real calculus not HS or Business calculus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because some DCUM posters think nothing of paying more than 10K for travel sports and giving their kids repetitive strain injuries from a young age, but GOD FORBID that they be accused of being Tiger Parents and push their kids into improving their cognitive reasoning skills with MATH. Then they'd be like ASIAN ROBOTS (yes, they're racist too).

I’m not comparing math to sports. I actually think it’s better to do physical activity when you’re young. If I had to push my child I’d push them for sports, because it’s a health gain.

The point I made was for other sedentary activities, such as reading for example. Tons of parents would rather have their child read excessively then do math. They are all ok with taking AP English or AP history or AP psychology, but lord forbid if they could take multivariate calculus.

They somehow feel that it’s better to do all those other things and not math.

It's mostly an American phenomenon.

Almost anywhere else in the world math is pretty front and center. But Americans seem to feel like math kills childhoods or some silly shit like that.

No, they don’t. Fake news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they struggle with calculus if they decide to become engineers in college because it’s been so long since they’ve taken the basic maths that they need to pass real calculus not HS or Business calculus.

This is the argument against accelerating math by several years, not acceleration in general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every time someone posts about Math acceleration, a mob of posters jump in as if the accelerators are committing sacrilege.

We never hear complaints about kids taking AP social sciences. What gives?

Most people are not pushing to take AP Social Studies 3-4 years early. They take AP classes on the schedule the school has. People are pushing to take math years ahead of the schedule in the US. That is the difference.