I must disagree with you. The schools don't need more math and science classes. What the schools need to do is teach competently the math and science they are now teaching. How is adding a new math class with another incompetent teacher going to change anything except make for a further disaster in the schools.
We got the same argument for more math and science back in the 1950s when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made setellite into orbit around the earth. In the haste of that project we got the new math. It was a great failure.
**The schools don't need more math and science classes. What the schools need to do is teach competently the math and science they are now teaching.**
Bravo!! Go to the head of the class! :D
You make excellent points. I do think we need more math and science classes, but FIRST, we need to teach competently what we have now. One problem with current teaching theories is that learning must always be *fun*. The "educators" who hold this belief rail against having students memorize their addition and multiplication tables because that's not *fun*. They don't want flash cards or drills or timed tests. But it's amazing that some of these same math-phobes who argue against math drills want to see the football and basketball players running wind sprints and play drills.