How do we save math education?

Holy shit, I've been looking for this for a year, since I lost the data on my old HDD. Thank you, user!

I dont want normies near math OP

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It's very important for Dwarf Fortress modding and DFHack.

We can't. We're in the "why are we learning about math when they should teach us how to pay taxes" or "I'm never going to use math when I grow up, why should I learn it" era.

It's literally always been like this. Normal people don't give a shit about math. If you weren't an autistic neet this would be common knowledge

Stop hiring Education majors.
Fund Math/Education and pay them more.

This, the best way you can teach something abstract like math is if you actually understand instead of just memorizing meme methods and doing stupid songs.

bump

This will never happen. For obvious reasons, all teachers have banded together as a united class. If math teachers were elevated (as it should happen) the other teachers would be pissed.

Imagine this: All math teachers start getting paid double as they are (as they should) while all the other teachers get nothing because teaching English is nowhere near as important or delicate as teaching math. Those unions would riot and lobby like never before to be sure that either they get the benefits too, or the benefits originally for math teachers get watered down into benefits for all.

You just can't win. I really wish that being a mathematician was a strong political identity, and we were a separate class above the rest. That way we could easily use politics to our advantage and make it clear that others are inferior dogs compared to us, and that we ought to make 6 figures or even more. But we can't, especially not at the high school level.

A political union of college math professors is still possible though. I hope it happens.