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No wonder the economy is tanking
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https://theonion.com/10th-grade-prodigy-studying-mathematics-at-10th-grade-l-1819577209/
I’m not sure if it’s the same in other countries but this is 100% where amerikkka shines. Obviously a function of our horrific education and economic systems - but not knowing how to do child-level math is often a point of pride. Like it doesn’t need to be a point of shame, but saying “i haven’t used geometry/algebra in years!” isn’t making the point they think it is (and likely isn’t true, even if they don’t realize it).
I've used algebra in programming, but I'm pretty sure I've never used geometry outside a classroom in my entire life.
Not explicitly- but you like apply geometric concepts into every day activities (eg parking a car, tossing paper into a bin, cutting a pizza) or algebra which forms the basis of logical arguments/reasoning.
IMO teachers don’t do enough real-world examples of concepts, which is why students don’t engage with the topics. Idk I’m an engineer and a scootch on the spectrum so I can’t help but observe things everywhere lmao. I understand that school “needs” assessments of some sort - but the pacing of learning and refusal to meet people where they’re at frustrates me to no end. It creates the illusion that the knowledge is trapped in an ivory tower and not present in phenomena we interact with daily.
Honestly I have the same beef with most engineering curriculum (physics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, statics and dynamics, etc) which again are things an everyday person has knowledge of (eg water flowing in a stream or gutter, ice melting, dissolving sugar into tea) but are taught that that knowledge is worthless.
I’ve found most people enjoy logic/math/engineering but are taught from a young age that they CAN’T if it doesn’t immediately click, and taught to internalize that CAN’T for the remainder of their lives. Hence Stephen Gould quote, “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”