With my kid in elementary school, I can see how math instruction is generally terrible: teachers rarely have any enthusiasm for teaching it. I only had one grea

With my kid in elementary school, I can see how math instruction is generally terrible: teachers rarely have any enthusiasm for teaching it. I only had one great math teacher (combining enthusiasm, skill and hard work) and I've been through special math programs (in high school and uni). Again, it is a question of incentives: someone with enthusiasm for math would likely go with a higher paying job requiring higher level math. Still, despite the crappy teachers, I was better than most to persevere at it until high school where I had the great teacher. But this does not scale and we are losing kids to bad teachers: how can we fix this?