By: Anon1

Anon1 — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 11:09:57 +0000

I think we paid more attention to boosting a students self esteem than laying the sound foundation the learning of math. As a teacher it is getting harder and almost impossible to teach to any discernible standard without having the parents and the school administrators intervening to passing the students. The worst culprits are the "Math Education" PhD's who are continually tweaking an system they broke without really addressing the real cause of the problems that prevent students from the learning math. I am old school and I learned math at a time when the British system was very rigorous and also when a lots of people in academia knew about "British Applied Mathematics". Sadly, it is not true anymore. The British system also seen marked deterioration of standards. At least in Eastern Europe and Asia math is being still taught to a intellectually challenging level. The Singaporean GCE-(A/L) where they use the "Singapore Math" is very good. I know so, because I had the opportunity of perusing past exam papers online and the students are sure being challenged. The All India IIT entrance exams which comprises of math,chemistry and physics exams are the toughest I have seen thus far. The math and physics questions of the IIT entrance exam are of level of junior and senior level of a US college/univeristy!!!

By: RJ

RJ — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:27:07 +0000

Great post and spot on. Americans are becoming even fatter, lazier, and stupider (is that a word? As an American, I don't know.) And the entire US education system is based not on learning or working, but on how you are feeling. Ugh!

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