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2025-02-04 -Great Cultural Revolution

Elon Musk needs H-1B workers because math education fails our students

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-04 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11145 views ] Top

#1 The hell with H1B. Just give them a Green Card.

Posted by 3dc 2025-02-04 07:44|| 2025-02-04 07:44|| Front Page Top

#2 The fruits of 50 years of H-1B destroying the incentive of American students applying themselves in the STEM fields.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-04 08:53|| 2025-02-04 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Bet they can calculate exactly how many rioters are needed at a given roadway...

Posted by Warthog 2025-02-04 09:34|| 2025-02-04 09:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Bet they can calculate

Prob under instruction

Trump preparing to dismantle 'woke' department of education as math, reading scores show stunning lows

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-04 11:13|| 2025-02-04 11:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Texas Democrat who sent his kids to private school criticizes parents who do the same

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-04 11:17|| 2025-02-04 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 uh Elon
No!

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2025-02-04 15:50|| 2025-02-04 15:50|| Front Page Top

#7 I expect Elon will address this issue eventually.

Mathematical maturity takes time. Students have to keep revisiting earlier topics in deeper ways, while learning new things. They were trying to teach abstractions too early, and to the wrong people.

Posted by KBK 2025-02-04 19:52|| 2025-02-04 19:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Try raising pay scales to make it worth peoples time.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-02-04 20:06|| 2025-02-04 20:06|| Front Page Top

#9 They were trying to teach abstractions too early, and to the wrong people.

*Warning - Anecdotal*

When eldest was in 3rd grad, instead of teaching add/subtract tables, the emphasis was on conceptual math, basically Algebra concepts. To 3r graders. I went through College Calculus II, and really enjoyed math, so my kids had a good at-home tutor. Everyone else in the class checked out, so thank you for helping, was the reply to my asking how the classmates were doing.

Common Core, then the Covid Protocols, have absolutely destroyed a generation's math education.

There was even a gag in the movie Incredibles 2 where Dad was trying to help his son with math, "There is no new math, only math!?" I asked mine, "Do you want to learn math, or do you want to learn how to navigate the curriculum?" They chose learn math, and are now head of their class in Math now that they are in conceptual Math such as College Algebra.

In short, they taught math backwards to the point the Elementary School Teachers couldn't teach, only show videos, so when students inevitably had question, the teacher couldn't answer the questions, and IMHO created a disconnect with the students and teachers, turning what were natural Elementary School Teachers into babysitters.

Thanks, Department of Education!

Hey Kansas, just your story, if real. OK, fair in the Age of Internet, let me do proofs: mine can make change and count it back.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-04 20:50|| 2025-02-04 20:50|| Front Page Top

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