The Rich Cost of Poor Mathematics Education

The US economy is slowly collapsing before our eyes. Just in the past ten years, the country has changed from a frivolous society to a growing thrift. There are countless numbers of current generation high school students and university students compared with their predecessors who spent the Great Depression. Although high school algebra attention is beneficial for a small part of the student population, it is rarely used at the education level after graduating from college.

This is certainly not a particular issue in literature on the development of mathematics; mathematics education as well as general education literature will serve not only colored people, poor people, and girls but also white people, boys, and middle class people It does not provide (DiME, 2007; Secada, 1992). Professional development of mathematics supports teacher's practice in the classroom but research does not basically change teacher and color, relationship between poor people and girls even if teacher's beliefs and practices are changed Do not improve relations between students. Mathematical achievements (Battey, Kafai, Nixon, & Kao, 2007; Sleeter, 1997). There is a wider literature on teacher education on fairness issues, but there are few mention of mathematics. Likewise, when mathematical development is the goal, fairness is not usually the case.

An important task of teacher educators in mathematics education is to prepare teachers for preschool teaching mathematics. The main goal of the mathematical methodology course is to teach mathematics necessary for a particular grade and to prove that all students can effectively learn mathematics regardless of their background. Educational fairness associated with race, socio-economic status (SES), gender, and student's special needs is an anticipated problem in teacher preparation (Grant & Secada, 1990; Martin, 1995). But what we could not deal with these problems is that some topics in mathematics reflect the lack of preparation and comfort of the teacher's educators as being driven away by the teacher . This dilemma will become clearer when teacher educators and teachers before inauguration are mostly white people.

Children do not understand math and one of the related failures, but they often happen at some point in a 500 hour salt mine tour of mathematics (ie mathematics education). And the beginning of sale / hawk mathematics, like K - Tel kitchen supplies abolished on Saturday flea market. Please imagine that the sole purpose of studying at school is to fill in a job post and pass a driver's license. Why do people study at school? You do not have to read a book, do you? In addition, Art - Ha - I hope for any practical application of picture / sculpture in the cut / cut and paste life, we unconsciously make for school children I will help you. Drive, buy groceries, calculate time, measure wood, and fund your home. In ordinary life, we found Willy Lohmann's mathematics. Here, mathematics is sold at a discounted price to tired and skeptical students.