My friend edits law books. She still thinks 2+2=5.
Wonder how much grant money this raked in.
replace “parents” with “elementary teachers” in the article and it would be just as valid - that’s why they teach elementary grades - because they suck at math
My parents were very good at arithmetic but couldn’t help much with algebra and beyond. Still, they encouraged me and my brothers to take a math class and a science class every year of high school. Plus, we had a damn good math teacher.
I’ve watched a few videos lately of people going around to “elite” universities and asking students basic questions. Hardly any of them can tell you how much is 3x3x3 and many can’t even tell you how much is 6x7.
Also most of the "teachers" have no idea how to teach.
They have been doing this for three generations so the parents of student can not help their children because the "new" unnecessarily complicated way they were taught is not the same as the "new, new, new" unnecessarily complicated way their kids are being taught.
If you want your kid to be able to do arithmetic and at some point higher mathematics you are going to need to either get them a tutor who knows how to teach or learn how to do it yourself. The internet has a bunch of free resources. Use them.
Or maybe sucking at math causes anxiety and intelligence has a strong genetic component.
Math is hard.
To me, Trig, Calculus, Diff-Eq etc was like learning to speak a foreign language. Practice practice practice. Soon you become conversational then eventually fluent. Physics was my all time favorite class. Math in motion...
It has fomething to do with the teaching of “new math” which students are taught since the 1970a. For example, 23 + 14 is not taught as 37 by memorization first like in the past.
Today, it’s taught through “understanding” that 23 is actually 2 parts of tens and 3 single units. Similarly, 14 consist of 1 part of ten and 4 single units.
So, we need to see that 23+14 means 2 parts of ten plus 1 part of ten. Then 3 units plus 4 units of singles We then have 3 parts of ten (30) and 7 single units, which total 37. Bingo!
Parents don’t fear math..
Parents fear the psychological crap that now passes as math.
If you have to go to the school and take a class so you can help your child with 3rd grade math..
IT IS NOT MATH!!!!
Math is absolutes, there is no guesswork.
2+2 always equals 4.
4×4 always equals 16.
24÷4 always equals 6.
W6is being taught today is not math
Quadratic equations are not hard if you pay attention.
The children are not paying attention, they have been given no reason to.
Me with failing grades were not acceptable at home.
I didn’t have to be best in class, I was expected to pass.