I wrote a math book that helps a lot with math de-fearing. The technology is very old-school: the printed word, but the teaching style is new. The tone is very

I wrote a math book that helps a lot with math de-fearing. The technology is very old-school: the printed word, but the teaching style is new. The tone is very conversational so it feels like you're reading a really long blog post. It's not free, but there is and extended preview here https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide_v5_preview.pdf https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide_v5_previ... Basic Math. People knew some of this shit 2000 years ago. Surely any modern teenager can learn this stuff if we give them the space of a year, good learning resources, and a detailed "spec" of what they must know at the end of each grade. Instead of the `stick` of failing this grade, you offer kids the `carrot` of skipping ahead multiple grades if they pass tests on the "spec"s for these grade levels. Suppose students spend n years in high school and on average pass the entire math spec in m years, where m < n (maybe m ~ n/2). Math wiz kids won't be held back and can go on an all-you-can-math binge, while artistically inclined youth can choose to skip math for several grades and then "catch up" during later grades.