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Am sithin' mad
You will never need to know algebra. I have never once used it and never once even rued that I could not use it.
Yeah, right. I'm a moron so it's not a big deal for everyone to be the same kind of a moron I am.
Why do I complain, though? As long as people are thinking something like that I'll have some means to pay my bills, after they come to me crying, unable to pass 'this damn class that is, o horror, required to get a diploma'.
You'll never need math. Yeah, right. Listen to him, girl, the country needs more cheap workers to do unqualified jobs.
Yeah, right. I'm a moron so it's not a big deal for everyone to be the same kind of a moron I am.
Why do I complain, though? As long as people are thinking something like that I'll have some means to pay my bills, after they come to me crying, unable to pass 'this damn class that is, o horror, required to get a diploma'.
You'll never need math. Yeah, right. Listen to him, girl, the country needs more cheap workers to do unqualified jobs.
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(You in this case is a collective. :))
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i had shitload of it. and geometry. and even got up to differential equations and triple integrals.
i guess, i'd have to agree with what was written below--a good teacher can most likely present the informaiton in such a way that it makes it relevant to the world.
and good teachers are indeed rare.
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that's not curable i'm afraid...
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I had that problem with Statistics in studying mutiple regression. I had a teacher who visualized how it worked and tried to explain that way. I had to take most of that classs to my previous stat teacher who taught me Analysis of Variance and who could use words and logic to explain it to me.
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This article made me crazy, but what makes me even more crazy is that there is no reason for students with reasonable intelligent to flunk algebra over and over. The problem is almost always bad teachers.
I will never forget the calculus teacher I had in college who asked me to stay after class one day and then informed that I was asking too many questions and slowing down his class. He told me that no one understand calculus. One only memorizes the equations. Classical example of a *rotten* teacher.
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I think I'll have to homeschool my son. At least in math and other related subjects.
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I taught Abnormal Psych. I didn't make it easy. I taught a lot of information not in the book. But I made it make sense. Students appreciated that. I was once told I had the highest student evaluations scores of any GTA in my psych department.
And yes, it was a lot of work and a lot of preparation, but it was worth it to do it well. But not worth it to essentially get paid only about $5/hr not counting lecture preparation time and test making and grading.
I know what you're talking about. And I have taught my son most of his math and science even when has been able to attend school. (he spent most of three years in the school system's home school program because he was too depressed to atttend classes).
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So, eghem... you'd have to fire about 90% of the teachers... :)
Oh, well... at least, not all of them forbid asking questions...
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*indifferently*
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Nevertheless, this does not surprise me at all. I completed two years at public school in Texas (in Houston area), and then the latter two years in California, and I testify that I lost an entire year of math. So I believe part of the problem is not an attitude against math, rather poor ethic of teachers in this state, and definitely at my school.
On the other hand, if Algebra is really that tough for her to fail 6 times, it is probably too late. I would also encourage her enroll in some homemaking class or a typing class, and if this is not disheartening to her, then my point stands true.
I was horrified to hear a student in the physics laboratory section for which I was serving as a TA complain, "This is so much math!" As it turned out, she was complaining about pure arithmetic. She was some engineering student!
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Thankfully, our department chair and the dean don't share this view. :)
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"Most of math can now be done by a computer or a calculator."
Sure... I recall how a guy like that was presenting me my tuition bill... He looked at the computer screen (a couple of numbers in $200-s and three more two-digit numbers), added them on his calculator, and proudly gave me the resulting $700+ bill. I was speechless, so I just muttered something, left and came back another day to pay the bill...
Oh, and the guy had (of course!) a BA diploma proudly displaysed on the wall of his cubicle! Grrr!
If only all of THEM would carry suitcases or mowing the grass! Lots of'em are calculating your bills or doing other (rather important for your life) stuff. :(
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