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An agile math curriculum that often incorporates the best math methodologies and pedagogies of the East and the West, by distilling them into cheap and good textbooks and workbooks for students worldwide, compared to those dear, inch-deep, mile-wide US textbooks.
Singapore Math could arguably be called the Uber of math education, based on the increasing number of developed and developing countries that have adopted the alien curriculum; as a result, thousands of students’ math grades have improved significantly over the years.
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Traditional math questions alt-right politicians blame for their bad or negative influence on students, which create math anxiety or instill the fear factor in them.
In most cases, semi-numerate politicians themselves are clueless how to solve these alt-left math questions, who often attribute the high innumeracy rate among certain racial or religious groups to pure laziness and poor study habits.
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The tools you need to get the most mathophobic student or adult not to give up on the most disliked school subject even if it appears that they were not born with the “mathematical gene.”
Pep talks, study tips, showers of praise, and no condemnation for failures are some common weapons of math persuasion successful teachers use to help students achieve a decent level of mathematical proficiency.
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A public service (that usually lasts all year) in which you voluntarily take time out of your day to help your buddy pass math class. Most common math pro bono's involve one American student and the foreign kid he's grown fond of and befriended.
Foreign Kid: "Yo dude I don't get this shit! What the fuck is teach talking about when he says cosine of 30 degrees?"
American Kid: "Get your calculator. All you gotta do is put in 'cos(30degrees)' and you'll get '0.866025404'. Simple dude. Are you going to be my math pro bono all damn year?"
Foreign Kid: "Yeah dude, we don't do math in my country."
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A teaching format that effectively prepares students to the test: worked examples followed by lots of practice on similar questions—algorithmic mastery over conceptual fluency.
Average teachers just love drill-and-kill math, because it gives oft-low self-esteem kids the illusion that they've mastered the concepts—teachers are happy, students gain self-confidence, and parents are pleased with the decent grades.
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A Communist version of Singapore Math—which is rehashed from the world's best math curriculums—to brainwash students of the power of math in propelling North Korea into a nuclear power.
Math educators believe that if North Korean students were to take part in international comparative studies like PISA and TIMSS, it wouldn't be surprising that they'd rank among the top ten, thanks to the high standard of North Korea math.
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The hypothesis that a large proportion of the people in the developed world would lack the critical thinking and quantitative skills required of a 21st-century citizen, because the politics of nativism, populism, and racism plaguing their societies have directly or indirectly brainwashed or radicalized them.
Thanks to Trumpism or right-wing politics, clothed under white supremacism or white Christian nationalism, millions of adults and children have fallen victims to the gospel of doom-and-gloom math, who blame millions of immigrants and refugees for stealing their blue-and white-collar jobs and for invading the promised land of their forefathers (who did the same thing to Native Americans).
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