PS: If you really want good chances at college, move to a smaller population state. Somewhere like Alaska or New Mexico.
Not sure RSM will help here (my daughter goes to RSM). May be some kids have talent / curiosity in other areas that needs to equally nurtured. Just a thought.
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I think the word problems so early on are killing math for kids. The added complexity in figuring out what the problem even is definitely frustrates my daughter.
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That is the biggest problem I have in taking maths exam. English of professors and math teachers is so difficult to understand. I donāt know what they are talking about and what they want.
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This is a very uplifting story!
WSJ: How a Public School in Florida Built Americaās Greatest Math Team
The extraordinary thing about the Buchholz math team is how ordinary Buchholz is. Itās ranked 66th among schools in Florida and outside the top 1,000 across the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. But at the annual championships of Mu Alpha Theta, the national math honor society, the Buchholz kids have trouble counting the shiny objects they lug home.
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Havenāt seen this before. Broken by race, US Asians actually scored #3 in the world at the PISA test.
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A personal favorite of mine is the Monty Hall question which Iām sure many of you are already familiar with.
There are three doors, A, B and C. One has a prize. You choose door B. Monty Hall opens door A and thereās no prize there. Before he opens the other two doors he asks you if you still want to stay with door B or if you want to switch to door C.
Does it matter if you switch? Quite a few high reasoning people who Iāve thrown this at have gotten it wrong including a couple very ept Google programmers. One went nuts with it for hours.
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I think this question should be on Leetcode or something and every developer should study the answer. Itās very famous.
Sure is a math question? Is a psychology question.
Math question. Google it.
You accept whatever spout to you?
My statement requires you to think from the first principle.
The big assumption is Monty Hall knew where the prize is and that nobody can shift the prize to other doors without his knowledge. If those assumptions hold true, then we should observe his expression when door B was chosen. From his micro expression, can deduce whether door B is the right door or not.
Also US Whites is #7 in the world at the Pisa test. Beat all the other mostly white countries except Estonia.
This framework is just bad. Just teach kids real math for Godās sake.
UC committee changes admission standard for data science, causing confusion over math framework
The war on math spreads.
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My daughter took MVC at CC along with other 200 kids from her high school during her senior year because there was no other math class to take from her school. We missed that we should have stood in the sign-up line at 5am and barely made it to the class at non-preferred time.
Did it help her college admission? I think so (she was admitted to her Early Decision School), but not sure how much it helped.
This was pre pandemic, though. Not sure how things have changed since then. I heard that overall story telling along with noticeable contribution to the community matters more these days.
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I think taking MVC should help admission. It demonstrates the kid is capable and has the initiative to tackle more advanced math.
Even if it doesnāt help admission, it should help her college career. She wouldnāt feel intimidated by the fact that her other classmates took more advanced math in high school, and overall better prepared for her other classes.
I think America has this really bad attitude towards math. They think math is some sort of innate capability. Either you were born with it or you didnāt. But in fact it is something kids can train themselves to be better at. Not unlike any kind of sports. Sure, very few can get up to the elite level. But basic algebra and geometry any kids can do, given the right environment.
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If not going for a STEM major, still need to know basic algebra and geometry?
Yes. It broadens the mind. Way more valuable than biology and physics.