HOT Seat #1 - Is Math Dead?
Welcome to our very first Hot Seat debate! In this debate we hear from Sunil Singh and explore his idea that: Math is Dead!
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love the idea for this sub-series!
Sunil is wrong. There is no precision in elementary math education. The core definitions and basic algorithms are often wrong. The rules and laws kids are made to memorise are typically workarounds and bug fixes. Math education in the West today, rather than stimulate curiosity, is more akin to child abuse. Math anxiety and fear is the fault of curriculum designers too scared to be seen as heretics in the church of math. So yes, K-8 level math education is dead! Why? The ideas passed off as logical explanations of relationships between quantities are long obsolete. Science progressed greatly since the 16th century. However, basic math remained both untouched and putridly stagnant. So it's no surprise that the same kids who love science class will often hate math class, despite maths being the language of science!