[meadsjn]

Students failing algebra rarely recover

Let's tell the truth here: Teachers failing to teach algebra rarely recover.

Few public school teachers could pass second or third grade plusses, minuses, timeses, and gazintas; let alone teach eighth or ninth grade algebra or geometry.

[JmyBryan]

Algebra is largely unimportant in most peoples lives. How to manage finances etc. should be the major emphasis of general higher mathematical education.

[Paladin2]

"gazintas"

LOL. That word is also one of the basic constructs of Electrical Engineering, along with gozoutas.

[Aevery_Freeman]

I wrote just such a "game" for the TI-84's that schools use. I give it to math teachers (to drill the students deficient in those skills).

Some of the math teachers don't do as well on a child's game as one might expect.

Hmmm...

[Aevery_Freeman]

I wrote just such a "game" for the TI-84's that schools use. I give it to math teachers (to drill the students deficient in those skills).

Some of the math teachers don't do as well on a child's game as one might expect.

Hmmm...

[PapaBear3625]

Few public school teachers could pass second or third grade plusses, minuses, timeses, and gazintas; let alone teach eighth or ninth grade algebra or geometry.

I know one teacher who went through the first month of her geometry class talking about the "hippo-tense" of a triangle before somebody corrected her.

What's really needed, as a minimum, is a requirement that the teacher have passed, with a B or better, a college level algebra course. I'm talking about a real math course, not "math for educators".