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The real question should be is why are US textbooks so hard when most people never need HS math after finishing school, and lack so many other skills that are n
by rb808 6y ago
The real question should be is why are US textbooks so hard when most people never need HS math after finishing school, and lack so many other skills that are never taught.
- jimmaswell 6y agoModern Common Core seems very promising for teaching real number sense and a good foundation to think about things.
- rimliu 6y agoUnless you count thinking as an important skill. It alway baffles me when I see "why don't they teach how to do taxes?". Well they do teach you how to read and hiw to do maths? How hard it is the to put 2 and 2 together?
- mschuster91 6y agoTaxes and maths are two very different things. The math part of taxes usually is easy, what's complex are the countless rules around it, e.g. what can be counted as a deductible expense and what not - additionally, most rules don't even make logical sense as they were written for political reasons (i.e. to appease one or another voter/corporate interest group).
- rb808 6y agoThinking is an important skill, which is why scientific experiments, essay writing and philosophy are so important. Integrating equations, not important.