This is probably true. I also claim that many students will be turned off by being forced to memorized the basics. So it wouldn't help to force them!https://twitter.com/davidmanheim/status/1030138888310939650 …
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Replying to @DrEugeniaCheng
Maybe. I'm not sure there is a significant value in keeping students with lukewarm interest in math, but few well-honed basic skills. They mostly won't become mathematicians, and even if most won't be as "turned off," they won't have drilled in these basic skills needed for life.
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Replying to @davidmanheim @DrEugeniaCheng
Very few "math skills" are needed for life. This is precisely why this country has managed to survive for many decades with a completely dysfunctional system of mathematics education.
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @DrEugeniaCheng
I'm wary of the historical "evidence" of how people muddled through. The difference between the level of math needed for a high-school dropout to have a successful career in the 1980s, or to understand widely discussed policy issues, is clearly very different than the present.
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Replying to @davidmanheim @DrEugeniaCheng
If the learning of "mathematics" (meaning the assimilation of some body of "elementary" facts and methods) really is of such urgent importance to the success of young people today, then why do they drop out of math at the rate of 50% per year, from eighth grade through college?
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And can we not expect them to avail themselves of Khan Academy and other resources, if their need is so desperate?
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