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[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Have you looked at math education in the US in the last 15 years? Because it is a lot better than the bullshit they did when I was a kid.

Now kids get an actual understanding and hence intuition about all of it instead of the 1970s approach: "this is the rule, you don't have to understand it; now, shut up and do it!"

Also, they teach kids about useful shit now like media literacy. In elementary and middle school. And they teach them a bit about economics, jobs, salaries, and budgets.

My kid is a freshman in HS now so I can't speak to whether they teach about personal finance type stuff but I would be surprised if they don't given the track record so far.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

It's telling how many parents complained because they can't understand their third grader's math homework. Math intuition and understanding should be the main focus at the earlier grades and crap like rote memorization of the times tabs should be dropped. Maybe I'd even teach formal logic and basic proofs in middle/high school (besides just geometry class)