> and overly focused on emotional fictional literature
Isn't that what people read for fun? If you have to teach reading and grammar, I'm sure that there are worse choices.
And you do need some serious background in Calculus for most college-level STEM fields, including probability/statistics/data science.
I do agree that the social sciences (including Econ, but not only!) are seriously missing in school
education, and it's quite silly to teach so much history/literature/natural science/math even as we ignore them altogether.
Teaching math proofs is really, really hard. Even most college math majors don't really learn them all that well. Maybe if proof assistants develop to the point where it can be a fully "gamified" subject, it could work in K-12.
> Isn't that what people read for fun? If you have to teach reading and grammar, I'm sure that there are worse choices.
My classmates and I always read books for fun, and none of them were the kinds of books in English class. They were more adventurous things like Narnia, Artemis Fowl, Harry Potter, and Ender's Game. Also seemed like the girls could tolerate the English class books a lot better, which felt unfair. Looking back, the only time I enjoyed the books was the one year I had a male English teacher picking them.
> And you do need some serious background in Calculus for most college-level STEM fields, including probability/statistics/data science.
Sure I remember using calculus in those college fields, but it didn't require what I'd call a serious background in it. Students could just beef up their calculus skills on-demand if needed. I especially never used all that training in solving complicated integrals by hand, which was seemingly half of Calculus BC.
Isn't that what people read for fun? If you have to teach reading and grammar, I'm sure that there are worse choices.
And you do need some serious background in Calculus for most college-level STEM fields, including probability/statistics/data science.
I do agree that the social sciences (including Econ, but not only!) are seriously missing in school education, and it's quite silly to teach so much history/literature/natural science/math even as we ignore them altogether.
Teaching math proofs is really, really hard. Even most college math majors don't really learn them all that well. Maybe if proof assistants develop to the point where it can be a fully "gamified" subject, it could work in K-12.