>>I wonder how many more good mathematicians we'd have if we taught it well. Yes, but teaching is just one aspect, what matters for the school going children m

>>I wonder how many more good mathematicians we'd have if we taught it well. Yes, but teaching is just one aspect, what matters for the school going children more though is the overall cultural and societal stance/attitude about math. Unfortunately, it seems that the US society in general avoids/abhors/hates/ignores/undermines/fears math mostly and this attitude gets inculcated in the children too. So such children lack motivation to put in the required amount of efforts to learn math. It's great that despite all this US is doing well at university level math. Also, the US stood first in IMO 2016, that is also great. [1] [1] https://www.imo-official.org/results.aspx https://www.imo-official.org/results.aspx