Imagine you as a parent have paid the big bucks to send your gifted math student to the best schools and he or she has taken all the advanced math classes. Your gifted math student get to collage and is excited about a carrier in engineering or science. They have made perfect grades all through high school and is confident that they will make perfect grades in collage. Now in collage they find these classes are to hard and transfer. As a parent I would be very upset and confused and be asking myself why has this happened? Recent studies show that sixty percent of these students are going in a different direction in their studies because the math is too hard. Additionally, Americans are asking what is “Japan” doing different in regards to teaching math? Where Japan students excel in math and the U.S. is lingering behind. One concept as to this problem is that students are not receiving “a good foundation in math”. Additionally, specialist Richard Rusczyk says that it is the way schools are teaching math that is the problem is according, Carol Lloyd. Rusczyk has seen this with his own eyes he recalls in school at Princeton University students that attended the best schools where struggling. The students were challenged with a new concept the math was more than “route learning” …show more content…
He didn’t even have the advanced math classes like some of his friends at Princeton University. Rusczyk explains that he was a part of “math clubs” and math matches says Lloyd. This kind of competition prepared Rusczyk for collage math. He was confident in his ability to solve a math problem he had not seen before because he had been doing this in his “math clubs”. This made all the difference between himself and his friends. Rusczyk witnessed his friend’s one after another fail at what they thought was going to be easy explains