I always did well in Algebra, got A’s in it, never understood why is was so difficult.
But yes, it does weed out, it is a logical though process that many people just don’t grasp
I always did well in Algebra, got A’s in it, never understood why is was so difficult.
But yes, it does weed out, it is a logical though process that many people just don’t grasp>>> me too mr lambert would give me an a until i finished all the stupid home work after aceing the tests. once you figure it out then it’s just busy work.
Algebra as a prerequisite to voting?
What’s strange is that Math was my worst subject in school, by far. My best subjects were History & English.
Despite the fact that I was a moron at Math, I made very good grades in Algebra & actually enjoyed it.
I never could figure that out.
Back in the early ‘70s, I was reaching 7th and 8th grade math to military kids on a post in Germany. The kids were mainly those working at a hospital. It was the math curriculum introduced during the reforms of the previous ten years. Many kids were able to understand the same algebra that I had not rencountered until my first year in college. Once a kid gets the “it” of algebra, and he is brought enough, he/she can glide right into calculus if he has a reasonable amount of smarts. The trouble is that because of political pressure, because so many elementary teachers were never trained in college to teach math, never understand what they were doing, the subject began to be dumbed down.