{"id":69995,"date":"2020-03-18T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69995"},"modified":"2020-03-18T17:43:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:43:02","slug":"99-of-us-in-the-united-states-dont-use-the-math-we-learned-in-middle-school-and-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/03\/18\/99-of-us-in-the-united-states-dont-use-the-math-we-learned-in-middle-school-and-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;99% of us in the United States don&#8217;t use the math we learned in middle school and high school.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xyowJZxrtbg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">?<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">My wife sent me this video from<strong> John Bennett, a math teacher. <\/strong>This was posted to YouTube back on 11\/8\/11.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>In fact, if it were up to me, I&#8217;d would no longer require math to be taught&#8230;in middle school and high school.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>NOTES:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>300 million people in the U.S. (as John mentioned back in October 2011)\n<ul>\n<li>1.5 million engineers<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 of a percent; and you can add another 1\/2 of a percent for other kinds of jobs that require that kind of math<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>That leaves 99% of us in the United States who don&#8217;t use what we learned about in middle school and high school math classes. But the problem is, math has caused major stress for people in the last 40 years.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>John Bennett had some major cognitive dissonance to the reasons WHY he was suggesting his students know the math concepts that he was trying to relay.<\/li>\n<li>He came to ask, &#8220;When do most of us use math in real life?&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>Money. Financial stuff. Balancing checkbook. Tipping. Cooking and carpentry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Why are we still teaching algebra? Because it teaches us about inductive and deductive reasoning. Math helps us develop that kind of reasoning.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>So a better plan would be to:<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Let people who want to take math in middle school and high school take it.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>For the rest of the students, provide strategy games and logic puzzles that help develop those cognitive reasoning skills.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-69999\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett2-MathOct2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett2-MathOct2011.jpg 948w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett2-MathOct2011-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett2-MathOct2011-768x606.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-69997\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett-MathOct2011-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett-MathOct2011-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett-MathOct2011-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett-MathOct2011-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett-MathOct2011.jpg 1035w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-69998\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett3-MathOct2011-1024x674.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett3-MathOct2011-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett3-MathOct2011-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett3-MathOct2011-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JohnBennett3-MathOct2011.jpg 1216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">When this math teacher meets people out in society, people confess how much stress math brought to them in school&#8230;.and they&#8217;re aren&#8217;t joking. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Given that we are all required to be lifelong learners these days, I love what John Bennett is saying here&#8230;because we really aren&#8217;t serving society at large by requiring math be taught in middle school and high school.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>It causes stress and very negative learning experiences for many people.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">We don&#8217;t use it. (By the way, I could plug and chug ok, but I had <em>no<\/em> idea what I was doing. No real understanding. I haven&#8217;t used algebra and\/or calculus since my youth.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What does it take to change our curricula like that?! Is it possible? I sure hope so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48123 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MoreChoiceMoreControl-DSC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MoreChoiceMoreControl-DSC.jpg 578w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MoreChoiceMoreControl-DSC-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>? My wife sent me this video from John Bennett, a math teacher. This was posted to YouTube back on 11\/8\/11. In fact, if it were up to me, I&#8217;d would no longer require math to be taught&#8230;in middle school and high school. 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