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Funny how today's leaders in math and programming all learned basic math the old fashioned way; now it's not good enough. Yet no one preaches teaching kids econ
by coldcode 12y ago
Funny how today's leaders in math and programming all learned basic math the old fashioned way; now it's not good enough. Yet no one preaches teaching kids economics, basic taxation and interest rates, and how investing works. So we wind up with people who know math but get fooled by politicians and scammers.
- dec0dedab0de 12y agoPersonal accounting should be required from kindergarten.
- fixermark 12y agoReally, "home economics" should be a required skill learned by high school (at least in the US). The US is a capitalist society. We do a significant disservice to our citizenry by failing to teach fundamentals of how money works in the public education system.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Yet no one preaches teaching kids economics, basic taxation and interest rates, and how investing works. No one preaches it for much the same reason that no one preaches that people should breath regularly -- its not in dispute. What you ask for has been a standard, noncontroversial part of the curriculum for decades (at least in CA.) Certainly, people do debate whether the way its taught is effective, or that it should be taught earlier or in more depth, as they do with most subjects in the curriculum.
- thomasahle 12y agoBecause the same mathematicians and programmers haven't changed anything else in the way they are taught?
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Funny how today's leaders in math and programming all learned basic math the old fashioned way Evidence? Just because they were school age when that was standard doesn't mean that that's how they learned it. School isn't the only place people learn, not all schools follow the normal curriculum (which is, after all, what is mandated for public schools), and even in schools that follow the normal curriculum as a base, not all instruction is limited to it.