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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I think you just need to learn math on your own. My kid is very good at math and primarily self taught because he was bored, wanted to do a math team, and has a weird problem that he can’t visualize anything in his head. He can’t picture a flower in his head. He is amazing at math and has a really good memory for anything he learns. He never went into STEM. He’s a double major in economics and philosophy.

He did a lot of tutoring in high school to help his friends. The majority of friends all took math outside of school. Russian Math, tutoring places that accelerate you, community college during the summer but always one level behind where they were to ensure an A. It didn’t matter how awful the curriculum or teacher, they aced everything. They did practice SATs until they hit a perfect score multiple times.

My other kid is in STEM. She’s very good at math and intuitive with it. Always straight As up until Calculus. She has ADHD and makes careless mistakes in calculations which teachers would always overlook because she demonstrated mastery of the concept. If there had been more precision in her early math instruction rather than it’s the concept not the answer BS she would have addressed this sooner. In hindsight we should have sent her to Russian math and not trusted the schools.

I asked one of our Asian neighbor friends why she sends her kid to Saturday school for math when she’s already far ahead. She told me it’s that Chinese families aren’t just looking to beat the competition, they don’t trust the schools. They look at what is being taught and who is teaching it and quickly accept it’s bad. She told me Americans expect the schools and government to be good, the Chinese don’t. [/quote]

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