Boaler taught sixth and seventh grade math before becoming a professor of education. She might know how to teach pre-algebra concepts, but I do not believe she

Boaler taught sixth and seventh grade math before becoming a professor of education. She might know how to teach pre-algebra concepts, but I do not believe she understands which high school math is most useful. A lot of students in the US learn physics without calculus, which is basically useless. It's just a set of magic formulae to plug and chug. We should not go further in that direction but instead go in the other direction.