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no one actually good at math is going to become a K-5 teacher, they’re gonna get paid, so it creates a doom loop where each new generation of primary school tea
by pokerface_86 2y ago
no one actually good at math is going to become a K-5 teacher, they’re gonna get paid, so it creates a doom loop where each new generation of primary school teachers get progressively shittier at math.
- WalterBright 2y agoThere's a reason why 3rd grade "teachers' edition" textbooks for math exist. It's because those teachers need an answer key for 100+200. As for "good at math", it's hard to see how a teacher with a degree can fail at 3rd grade arithmetic.
- pokerface_86 2y agoi have literally witnessed students in a senior level discrete math class struggle with simple algebraic operations. they were on the math education track.