>we only need people who can teach up to Integral Calculus and there are plenty of engineers, physicists, etc who know that subject well enough.
>well enough
We are content with "okay". It is will never go away...
By the way, I was specifically talking about high school. The media and government complain about there being no mathematicians teaching but then teacher salaries are the lowest of the lowest.
No joke, there are only 2 universities that even teach mathematics as a degree. I am in one of them. I have no reason to believe that the other one has more students given that they are not in the capital, like mine is.
Also, in sophomore there are like 6 people, junior like 3 and I honestly have never seen a senior. I am already doubting they exist but that would be ridiculous. There has to be at least one senior student.
Panama.
>elsiglo.com/panama/panama-queda-profes-matematicas/
>Estadísticas de la Universidad de Panamá (UP) y el Ministerio de Educación (Meduca) indican que entre 1995 y 2001, el número de estudiantes que ingresaron a la carrera de Docencia en Matemáticas fue nula.
Translation: Between 1995 and 2001 basically no one graduated with a teaching degree in mathematics.
Note, a teaching degree. Not an actual mathematics degree so they are shit anyways. We don't even have bad teachers.
>oy en día solo hay 50 personas inscritas en esta carrera de ciencias exactas.
Translation: There are only 50 people studying this career nowadays.
I assume this is countrywide.
So basically people who teach are physicists are engineers. This is ill considered and is only even a thing because no one knows math here.
But again, there is a huge difference between the teaching degree in mathematics and the actual degree in mathematics. I've seen both curriculums and for one thing, Calc I is taught in the junior year. In my junior year I will be doing real analysis, topology and algebra.
We truly are content with okay.