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• SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In the US: I highly doubt it

  The issue in the U.S. isn’t Maths textbooks (same rules as everywhere else), it’s poor teaching. U.S. Maths teachers aren’t required to have any Maths qualifications, and they’ve been sliding in world rankings for more than a decade now.

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, but even worse, you’re just talking about schools. You forgot about all the kids being home schooled, taught the earth is flat and an imaginary friend created everything in 7 days. Taught by parents who lack proper education themselves.

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    • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, but even worse, you’re just talking about schools

      I’m talking about anyone at all in the U.S. is allowed to teach Maths without any Maths qualifications

      You forgot about all the kids being home schooled

      That happens in other countries too, and yet it’s the U.S. which has been sliding down the world rankings for more than a decade, the country that doesn’t require Maths teachers to have Maths qualifications.

      Also, it’s kinda obvious the rules of math aren’t different in the US

      That’s right, as proven by U.S. Maths textbooks

      If people don’t know how to use math properly, the issue clearly is the education and not math itself

      Partly right. there’s also people who just outright forgot the rules.

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      • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Partly right. there’s also people who just outright forgot the rules.

        It doesn’t really matter, who needs math anyway? If the president can claim medicine prices will go down 1200%…

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably some backwards-ass red state / red town shenanigans.

  Math was always taught in my Blue cities. The atrocities of the US’s history was never left out of the curriculum.

  We need to actually finish doing reconstruction and fix this country.

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  • banshee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In all fairness, I grew up in a small town in a very red state, but the education system there proved better than larger, more progressive parts of the state. The education I received was likely an outlier and not representative of the norm, but it did teach me that educators in an area do not necessarily mirror the rest of the population.

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fix? It’s a duster fire. It may be hard to deal with, but a total collapse and completely rebuilding it feels like the better solution to the problem (so not based on a constitution made in completely different times with muskets and without internet etc).

    So you were taught math. What languages did you learn besides English? What history did you learn, just US or also of other countries and the rest of the world? And talking about the rest of the world, how much did you learn about that? Countries, cultures, cities, geographic features like mountains, seas, etc. and how they were formed? What religions were taught about? What about history of music and art?

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think that ordering of calculation was taught around 5th grade back in my day (11yo)

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My memory is shit, it was apparently 27 years ago if you’re right but I have no recollection to when it was. But it’s like cycling: it’s simple and once learned you never forget it.

    Now I’m learning how to weld. We’re learning Ohm’s law, which is the same as order of calculation: easy basic shit, a bit far in my memory but you never forget it. But others in my class are really struggling with it. I don’t get it.

    U = I R so R = U / I and I = U / R. P = U I so U = P / I and I = U / P. U=Volt, I=Ampère, R=Ω(Ohm), P=Watt

    This was first year in high school if I remember correctly.

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  • banshee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks for confirming. I probably sounded too condescending but I wasn’t sure if it was a false memory.

    I loved math as a kid though, so I ran through the curriculum as fast as I could to get to the good stuff. I think having older siblings helped - it gave me a preview of more interesting material.

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• halferect@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Definitely taught in parts of the US, it’s a regional thing though

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  • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Definitely taught in parts of the US, it’s a regional thing though

    It’s a how good is your Maths teacher (who isn’t required to have any Maths qualifications) question. The rules are the same everywhere.

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