Storminator
First Post
I think a lot of the problem is the abyssmal way mathematics is taught (at least in America). You learn almost as much in freshman algebra as you've learned up to that point... think about that.
Algebra should be finished by 6th grade (at the latest!), so kids can get on to more interesting things earlier. It'll make those science classes much easier too.
As an aside, I used to tutor physics. I had completed my college physics classes, and I was tutoring folks that hadn't done trig (HS physics). I was appalled at how much harder it was. Every time I would have taken a derivative or integral, I had to remember and apply some cumbersome formula AND remember which formula was which. Nightmare.
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Algebra should be finished by 6th grade (at the latest!), so kids can get on to more interesting things earlier. It'll make those science classes much easier too.
As an aside, I used to tutor physics. I had completed my college physics classes, and I was tutoring folks that hadn't done trig (HS physics). I was appalled at how much harder it was. Every time I would have taken a derivative or integral, I had to remember and apply some cumbersome formula AND remember which formula was which. Nightmare.
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