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Potentially unpopular opinion: Maybe our math teachers just suck? If we all had Marvin as our professor I doubt attrition would be as high, whereas most High Sc
by pdeuchler 11y ago
Potentially unpopular opinion: Maybe our math teachers just suck? If we all had Marvin as our professor I doubt attrition would be as high, whereas most High School math teachers are simply analytically inclined people who realized they had better job security teaching math than english
- justinhj 11y agoIf Richard Feynman taught our children physics that would be great too. Your bar is unrealistically high I feel. I'm pretty sure there's a large percentage of math teachers that want to teach math and enjoy teaching it. I'm not sure how much freedom they have to teach it their way though.
- pdeuchler 11y agoObviously we can't all be taught by Feynman or Minksy, but given the most common answer to "What subject do you dislike the most" is "math" we probably need to do better. It's also a vicious cycle, we're raising our future math teachers to dislike math
- kaitai 11y agoActually, many high school math teachers in the US did not major in math, minor in math, or receive any teaching certification in math. In high school it's not so bad -- only 28% of high school math didn't major in math, and only 12% of our total math teachers in high school have no qualifications whatsoever. [1] In middle school 55% of math teachers didn't major in math, and about 30% didn't major, minor, or get a certificate in math! [2] So -- you're right. [1] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=58 https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=58 [2] http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2015/2015815.pdf http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2015/2015815.pdf