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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mom of a math major here. He just loves math, and always has. I don’t think math is a super competitive major at his school— he’s had no trouble getting the math classes he wants, and they tend to be small classes. He’s really enjoying it. It makes me happy to hear more kids are majoring in math. I hope some of them go into teaching — we desperately need more good math teachers in this country! [/quote]

DS is a data science major who loves math and has focused his upper level electives in the advanced math classes. But, he's a terrible math teacher. It comes so easily to him that he's not great at explaining it or understanding where someone would go wrong in figuring out a problem. He applied for a job at the math tutoring center and didn't get hired because of this.

Being great at math doesn't mean you are great at teaching math. In contrast, DH is an engineer and really struggled with his math classes but through that struggle understands the challenges and is a great math tutor. He does that now as a volunteer.[/quote]

My kid has been tutoring friends in math/science since MS.  They are the go to when anyone has issues.  It continues in College as well---currently helping a few LA major friends get thru Calc 1.  
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