This woman says in this video clip that it's a cultural thing that people in the USA think of mathematical ability as an innate thing, that you either have a brain for math or you don't. I think the whole West has this mentality. Anyway, she says it was different in the Soviet Union. Math was seen as something everyone could learn because it was based on logic. And she says that when her mother helped her with her homework her mother told her that she didn't think math was taught properly in the USA. Her profile says she was born in the Soviet Union, so I assume the mother went to school there.https://youtube.com/shorts/Kvw_ZXftcmA?si=JETfHAwfkF6RftiSHere's a Chinese immigrant in Canada writing a book review, who was helping his child with school in Canada. Same thing there, he saw how the education was so much better in China a few decades ago compared to in the West now.https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/533690449/#533695166That book is supposed to teach you geometry with logic.Here's another book that's supposed to teach arithmetic with logic.https://archive.org/details/elementsofarithm00demorich
I think one of the reasons the West was more economically successful than the East in the 19th and 20th centuries, and possibly further back too, is that the West has been better at juicing their own lower classes. This might even go all the way back to when the Roman Empire was split into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. Interestingly most of the people within those two empires and the corresponding areas speak languages which evolved from Proto-Indo-European, and the languages of the Western Roman Empire have all become much simpler than the languages of the Eastern Roman Empire. Maybe this is due to a very longstanding culture of dumbing down the masses in the West.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/phNAsPwUp8Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxOJ4p8e7NQThis book talks about capitalism juicing the people.https://annas-archive.gl/md5/8340b7b55914a132215a8bbc4e91a7b2
They are both violently wrong. Believing math is some hidden secondary skill is bitter nonsenseMath is a language, some people are bad at math because they are bad at learning other languages and specially because they don't understand that math is a language. Math is in fact logic in a sense, but it's merely linguistics and math grammarIt's all linguistics, that's all there is to it
>>25268479I don't read posts by people who post random irrelevant images. Fuck off and kill yourself, low-IQ degenerate.
>>25268485>go on imageboard>get mad at imagesOk??????
>>25268485Seethe
Our math instruction in the west is an absolute trainwreck, no one is good at it unless they went to college for a major that requires it. Even our corporate managers wouldn't pass high school algebra and are impressed by anyone who understands it
You can just say USA when you're talking about USA.
>>25268614This. It's not as must le West problem but US problem when burgers somehow managed to create an education system that costs fuckloads, has mediocre results at best and forces children to waste way too much time in school.Didn't look too much into it but I guess the way states and for profit publishers have so much say in it might be why it's so uniquely shitty.
>>25268520Because being a teacher is a fail state in almost all fields. That leads to only extremely mediocre people even taking on the position.
>>25268904We really should shame teachers and military for the social welfare leeches they are
>>25269155When asked how Cuba achieved literacy rates higher than America, Castro said that Cubans were not any smarter it's just that education spending in Cuba mandated one teacher for every five studenrs
>>25268904mostly correct (evil people who enjoy torturing kids also take the position)we need to double teacher pay (or more) while simultaneously banning everyone who has ever worked as a teacher/school administrator or gotten an education degree from the professionwipe the field totally clean and pay enough to draw in high achievers to rebuild it
>>25269248>Unfortunately I was arbitrarily gatekept from pursuing university level math further as there was no way in hell I was going to sit through three fucking calculus courses of boring bullshit to then be allowed to pursue what I wantSingle variable and multi variable calculus classes aren't that bad honestly. When it comes to undergrad courses, topology, PDEs, complex and real analysis are pretty interesting. >but I severely struggled with high-school and middle school courseworkThat's just very sad
