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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]One of my good friends in college was a math major. He was a brilliant student. He came into college with so many credits that he decided to double major in Russian just to slow himself down because he wanted to have 4 years of college. He completed graduate school in math in one year. He decided to become a math teacher because he had tutored so many math students and thought it was a greater challenge to teach math to struggling students than to be a math professor.[/quote]

This is great but VERY rare. [b]You will see some education majors get a "math" major but they are taking the math for non-science majors courses under a BA not a BS.[/b] Big difference. Math is not a verbal or language driven subject. Education majors have a huge problem understanding how to convey knowledge without blabbering on and on and screwing up the concept.

So many of them think that math must be made friendly, softer and more language based or else the only alternative is rote memorization. The only people doing math by rote memorization ironically are the education majors who never understood math. [/quote]

What evidence do you have for this?

For what it's worth, I had plenty of real, actual math majors -- math professors, in fact -- teach me math, in college. Almost all of them were really, really bad at teaching math.

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