I wasn't going to post, but I wanted to highlight something.
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Originally Posted by KrazyCarl92
I will preface this by acknowledging that I am heavily biased on this topic, but I see this bias as justified.
This would be akin to if you asked someone from a robotics team why they were losing 90% of their matches and they said to you "because of our ball collector". Is it then the right move to take away your ball collector entirely? Will that make you win? Certainly not, and likewise removing algebra will not better educate our society!
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I'm surprised no one else has responded to your robot simile* because its kind of awesome. Because you don't get rid of your intake system, you just make it better. So we don't remove math education, we just make it better.
GUYS, THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE.**
How do we make math education better? At a practical level, not just conceptually? Most people are saying very broad things that are easy to say, but hard to apply.
Personally, the best teachers I had taught relationships in concepts to make sense of things (like the relationship between the y-value of f'(x) and the slope of f(x); that blew my mind in high school, physics formulas and derivatives made so much sense)(calculus is why I love math). What are concrete ways for teachers to teach?
*akin means "similar to" according to google. Similes use phrases in the range of "is like a". Just in case anyone cared. I needed to justify it for myself.
**Sometimes I just want to talk like we're all facebook friends, you know?