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[quote=Anonymous]Today's Americans children place far too much emphasis on sports, video games, movies, television during their developing and formative years (which they continue into the many decades of adult years).  Many of today's American children lack the discipline of other global children.  Discipline and work is frowned upon by American parents in general in favor of what is perceived as play, fun and leisure.  Learning mathematics requires critical thinking, work and solving hard problems.  Many American parents perceive these activities in the first decade and a half of life as torture and later when children realize they need math to academically survive (psychology, economics, STEM, medicine, healthcare, statistics) they plead fear, aversion, and incompetence.  Some of these children and their families may even seek special accommodations to simply get through the educational process under the guise of a developmental learning pathology to explain lack of number sense, fears and poor math performance.[/quote]

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