Which do you think is bigger 1/3 or 1/4? Why do we immediately look at this and pick 1/4? Many Americans suffer from innumeracy, so why is it ok and why don't we try to solve this problem? In school math is seen as something that we won't need in life. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, these are the things we think of when we consider math in the real world.
So I guess it's safe to say that our the root of our innumeracy is society's idea of math.
For me if I knew that the math I learned in high school was a matter of life or death, I'd be really good at it.
If the math we learned had to do with doing our taxes, opening accounts, savings, and all the other stuff they never learned, it would be like killing two birds with one stone.
Or we could just make math cool. Alex Kajitani is trying that with rapping (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVR6Usd0usY).
How should math be taught? Now this is a question I cannot answer. All I can say is if we can change how we teach math then maybe our
For me if I knew that the math I learned in high school was a matter of life or death, I'd be really good at it.
If the math we learned had to do with doing our taxes, opening accounts, savings, and all the other stuff they never learned, it would be like killing two birds with one stone.
Or we could just make math cool. Alex Kajitani is trying that with rapping (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVR6Usd0usY).
How should math be taught? Now this is a question I cannot answer. All I can say is if we can change how we teach math then maybe our