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My response to primary school teachers is that they need some mastery of math so they are not anxious about the subject in front of students. Because if the gi
by protomyth 7y ago
My response to primary school teachers is that they need some mastery of math so they are not anxious about the subject in front of students. Because if the girls in her class lookup to her and she is anxious, nervous, or dismissive of math then those girls will not go into any STEM field. If you want more females in STEM careers then it starts with elementary school teachers loving STEM.
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- paganel 7y agoPrimary school maths is not really maths, is arithmetics, asking a primary school teacher to go into some crazy higher-maths details in order to teach arithmetics is just a huge waste of resources.
- copperx 7y agoI would argue that calculus and Laplace transforms aren't math if there are no proofs involved; it's just multi-step arithmetic and symbol manipulation.