[Mirioron]

>The problem with math education is largely one of poor communication between student and teacher. The biggest being that the teacher tends to be unable to sufficiently vary the way they instruct to adapt to the way a particular group of students in a class need to hear it.

I'm sure if you spend enough resources on teaching a student to do something then almost every student will eventually get it, but at what point does the amount of resources spent become too much? Just the fact that math classes have 25-40 students each already means the resources we spend are limited and within those constraints it might very well be likely that those kids can't be taught this. It's not like we're suddenly going to get a massive surge in math teachers.

>Mathematics isn’t something to be “signed up for” in the sense that it is pervasive in every single aspect of our lives.

It might be pervasive, but most people could go through their life without learning half the mathematics that they do in school. I think studying mathematics is important to learn ways of thinking, but I also recognize that, in practice, most people have little need for most mathematics they learn.

[thaumasiotes]

> It might be pervasive, but most people could go through their life without learning half the mathematics that they do in school.

Most people do go through their life without learning half the mathematics they were notionally supposed to learn in school.