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>you have a zero percent chance of learning anything math related just by listening to the lecture Most students will never really learn anything math related
by jdietrich 8y ago
>you have a zero percent chance of learning anything math related just by listening to the lecture
Most students will never really learn anything math related beyond basic arithmetic - they'll just about fake it for the exams, then promptly forget it. The actual numeracy skills of the general population (even college graduates (even STEM graduates)) is so woefully inadequate that it'd be entirely reasonable to argue that we should just stop bothering with mandatory math education after 8th grade.
IMO the fundamental problem with education is the assumption that it works. The handful of RCTs we have suggest that it's mostly placebo.
- whatshisface 8y agoThe bargan is, as I have heard it, that we force everyone through math because we don't know in advance which ones will get to use it. We can't afford to cripple the 1% of people who become engineers. They do so much for our country that forcing all of the non-engineers to suffer through elementary engineering training is worth it.