There's so much low-hanging fruit in math education that this kind of article almost seems pointless. With just a decent curriculum and attentive teachers, we

There's so much low-hanging fruit in math education that this kind of article almost seems pointless. With just a decent curriculum and attentive teachers, we can do much better than today. I studied math in USSR until 5th grade. After moving to the U.S. and going to 6th grade, I coasted for three years. Think about it! Three whole fucking years that my math education was at a complete standstill, because I had already covered that material by the time I was 10! I was not a star student in the USSR! I want to an average city school and got decent grades. The biggest challenge of math education in the U.S. is unified material designed for the 99%. If you are not tutoring and home-schooling, you're doing your child disservice and setting them up for a huge disadvantage. (Russian education is nowhere near as good anymore, but most of the world is not sitting still.)