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I agree in general its an issue when basics are being thought by any person who does not really understand what they are teaching. They end up tecaching the rot

• DoreenMichele 6y ago
  I think the larger issue here is that a lot of elementary school teachers are people who have a math phobia because their difficulties with math derailed their career dreams. So they not only are bad at teaching it, the primary thing they teach their students is that "Math is scary stuff and something to be feared." And they teach it to really young kids who are very impressionable and don't have some means to avoid being brainwashed into believing it. My one and only goal with homeschooling my son was to get him past the math phobia he had developed and teach him "Math is your friend." He's genuinely bad with numbers, but he no longer has a math phobia and has a better grasp of the concepts than a lot of people, even though he can't calculate anything in his head and routinely asks me or his brother to calculate it for him. A math phobia is crippling and many people never get over it.