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Teaching Math Fail Even The Smartest Kids By Carol Lloyd

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In Carol Lloyd's article “Does our approach to teaching math fail even the smartest kids?”, Lloyd notes how students have been taught math inaccurately from kindergarten through twelfth grade, which is detrimental to their future. Recently there was a study that showed that sixty percent of college students enrolled in a STEM major transferred out because it was too hard for them. As the author claims, American students are not getting a solid foundation in math with about one third of the American high school seniors scoring below proficient in math. As Lloyd explained, it is not that students are not immersed in enough math, but rather that math is taught incorrectly to them by teachers. The researcher states that students are taught to memorize
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