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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Math is a disaster in schools” say the people who think worksheets over summer = learning [/quote]

Well, I think math is not well-taught in US schools and as I mentioned above focus on applied math problems in real life--not worksheets.  Actually math is taught poorly in US in part because of an over-reliance on related problem type worksheets--at least in the elementary grades.  [/quote]

Disagree.  There are bad math teachers and good math teachers and plenty of ordinary math teachers, at least in the elementary grades.  Math is not a disaster in US schools.  [/quote]

in my home country math teachers need to major in math to teach middle school math. oh, and to major in math you need to take more than 30+ college math classes. there is "liberal arts" - when you study math you study math. so the coursework that an average middle school math teacher has taken is similar to phd candidacy level in the US. knowing math does not necessarily mean that you will be a great teacher, but it absolutely is a necessary condition - and a condition that a vast majority of math teachers in the US do not meet.

my own kid's teacher this year is typical. she is bright and could have been a decent math teacher. unfortunately she essentially knows no math. and there is no way to fix that now.[/quote]

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