Post by @hosford42@techhub.social

2025-09-26 16:42 UTC

@chemoelectric@masto.ai @marionline@autistics.life > People may be better at mathematics than they realize. Teachers are very, very, VERY bad at teaching it. I second this. I cringe every time my girls, who are both *very* good at math, say they hate the subject. It has everything to do with the teachers. I think the education program for teachers misses something that must be vital for effectively teaching math, especially in a way that makes kids feel competent and enjoy the subject. At least, that's how it is here in the US.

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@earthtoneone@mstdn.social 2025-09-28 17:56

@hosford42@techhub.social I was "bad at math" as a USian girl. Imagine my surprise when I got 790/800 on the math SATs. Turns out I was just "bad at" slogging thru pages of repetitive homework.

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@zakalwe@plasmatrap.com 2025-09-28 18:51

@hosford42@techhub.social @chemoelectric@masto.ai @marionline@autistics.life A major part of the problem is that you cannot expect to hire good teachers into an education system that treats its teachers in some ways worse than its janitors, grossly underpaying them and then still expecting them to provide their own classroom supplies out of their already inadequate salaries. It's a travesty. It could almost be designed to underperform. It's as though key parts of the system were built by people who grudgingly accepted that they were obligated to provide ordinary people with an education, but were damned if they were going to provide them a good one.

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