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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I really think part of the reason is that most the top math score countries use math specialist from the very beginning. Whereas in the US, most of the elementary school teachers are deeply uncomfortable with math themselves.[/quote]

+10000  Education degrees require very little complex math and attract the English or communications type student. Curriculum 2.0 is being written by MCPS staffers with the same lack of math skills. Its an insular and in-bred system that doesn't attract the best and brightest.[/quote]

+10000 again.  My DC has actually had MCPS math teachers who have taught entire math concepts incorrectly, i.e. in a way that gives kids the wrong answers and assessing and grading the wrong answers as "correct".  It has not been an isolated happening and seems to occur because the teachers themselves have no understanding of math beyond basic memorization.  A teacher who doesn't "deeply understand" can't teach "deeper understanding" even with a curriculum which ostensibly promotes "deeper understanding".  [/quote]

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