>What kids need is teachers who know math. I would add, "and how to teach it." to that. My final "Advanced Math" course in high school was a young teacher jus

>What kids need is teachers who know math. I would add, "and how to teach it." to that. My final "Advanced Math" course in high school was a young teacher just out of college who apparently knew math, but failed completely at teaching anything meaningful to anyone in the class --- this may have been the fault of the textbook being used, but the fact that the school board chose to replace Calculus with this class because they couldn't find a teacher competent to teach it, speaks volumes to my mind.