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I find that people with some advanced math education are just better at reasoning and more successful in general. Teaching some people arithmetic and others the
by plonk 4y ago
I find that people with some advanced math education are just better at reasoning and more successful in general. Teaching some people arithmetic and others the "rest" would be a huge shame.
It's doubly damaging in countries where the government works by majority voting. I saw that when comparing family members (one of whom dropped out after middle school) watching the news. They just don't have a good enough understanding of basic math and logic to have a useful opinion, so they take the mental junk food some politician throws at them.
All of that to say, teaching as advanced math as possible to as many people as possible is in everybody's interest. It's not about enjoyment or being able to write proofs, it's about developing children's and teens' reasoning skills.
- psychphysic 4y agoI whole heartedly agree. But people have finite teen years, and finite attention. Many simply aren't interested and seem to resent abstract mathematical education. And simultaneously desire better accountancy skills. This would be a way to achieve that
- plonk 4y agoWhat I'd have loved to be taught is basic financial skills, as you said. But you need to cram that into an already crammed schedule that overworks children for diminishing returns (I found school miserable) and the math taught in my (first-world, very rich) country is already too basic IMO. Maybe as a one-hour-a-week high school course. The "economics" taught there were so basic and incomplete as to be useless.