Really not true at all.
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Math pedagogy at the K-12 level in the US is TERRIBLE, it turns a lot of kids off of math forever for absolutely no fucking reason, and it's not good at teaching ANY actual SKILLS like abstraction or back-of-the-envelope approximations. These are all MAJOR FLAWS.
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Replying to @elliotreed @iridienne
While Lockhart goes into greater depth on his own pedagogical methods in the full length book he wrote, in this article he takes the position that there are better ways to encourage kids with some math talent, and kids who have none don't need to learn it at all
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That's a really strong and highly controversial position to take But, again, the people who are pretty clear on the fact that they found math class an excruciating process from which they retained nothing are not few in number Why not let them just skip it then
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I'm actually kind of serious, like when I was in high school the LA Times ran a story called "Should Math Become an Elective?"
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Highlighting stories like a high school girl who's brilliant at every subject that has no quantitative component, but "Math is ruining my life" She's on the brink of flunking Algebra 2 and having to repeat it, her math scores on the SAT are dragging her down
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She's got a dream school lined up where she's already done stuff like correspond with profs in the literature department, but it's her math grades that threaten her chances of getting in
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Even though she's very clear that in college and in her adult life she will "avoid math if at all possible" And you can tell her that she's wrong, and that she needs to pass Algebra 2 to be a well rounded person and lead a full adult life But you'd obviously be lying
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There are a LOT of people like her who will use the blunt hammer of rote memorization and drilling to whiteknuckle their way through a C-minus grade in Algebra 2 and a 550 on the SAT math portion and then never, ever think about the topic again Is it worth it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed
yeah, i mean, i wish testing in the US were structured more like the GCSE exams in the UK (mind you, i mean the STRUCTURE, not the ADMINISTRATION, which is completely fucked). Every test is a subject test, you have to take X number. Colleges consider your INDIVIDUAL SCORES.
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