Math is a basic skill required for college and to attract employers. My friend Don is an join together Professor of Electrical Engineering at Seattle Pacific University. He shares some great insights about the significance of teaching math in high school.
"Math requirements vary by school. You don't necessarily have to have extra math to get into a college, but you do need it to be well-educated. Upper level math can train your mind. Math is a good discipline, and teaches qoute solving in a variety of subjects, beyond math."
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Math is an excellent way to learn real-life skills critical to getting a good job. Employers want problem-solving skills, determination,persistence, and hard work. They want job-seekers who will strive until they solve a qoute and get the job done. They want workers who know what it's like to work hard. These soft skills aren't taught by teachers, by they can be learned straight through pursuing math and retention children challenged with their subjects.
"Societal expectations have a lot to do with math achievement. I met a Japanese student going into business, and he really apologized for Only having two years of calculus. In the Us, our math expectations are so much lower than the rest of the world. We task those low expectations onto kids even from the grade school level; telling them that math is so hard and it's no fun. That promotes a negative view of math. It is a cultural issue that trains children to think 'I can't do this.' The only real solution is a cultural shift in the perception of math."
Colleges are seeing for students that have the best math preparation potential for that student. It doesn't mean you have to teach calculus to every child, but it does mean they want you to work conscientiously on math every year. Don't let your own weaknesses in math cause dissatisfaction in your children. Not all of us are gourmand cooks, but we can still hand our child a cookbook. Treat math in a matter-of-fact way, without conveying your own anxiety. You can account for that your child needs to learn how to learn math on their own, with great video tutorials, without telling them it's your anxiety that gets in the way of teaching it yourself.
"Math is basic to science and engineering. Right now many of our country's science and engineering professionals are nearing retirement, yet there are few up-and-coming students able to take those jobs. There are too few citizen with the math skills critical to take those jobs. Foreign technical workers are taking those technical jobs, because there are simply too few Us students who can do the work. For example, right now there is a deficit of aerospace engineers, and they can't find citizen to fill those jobs for defense contracts."
Because there is a deficit of engineers, and basic math skills may be lacking in social school graduates, homeschoolers have the advantage. We can supply the math students need to succeed. Our children can earn grants and scholarships for college based on their math preparation.
"Math is basic for all students going into engineering sciences. I have had many students over the years who want to go into engineering but stumble on the math. They may have made good engineers, but they couldn't take the math. Because this is such a large national problem, the government is working on solutions. Grant money from Us government and corporations is promoting science and math curriculum and providing hands-on curriculum for math and science. There needs to be a revolution on how science is taught in grade school and middle school. Portray math as fun and exciting! It can be done!"
Thanks go to Don Peter, M.S., P.E., join together Professor of Electrical Engineering at Seattle Pacific University for helping me with this blog post. Don and his wife JoAnn homeschooled their two daughters for many years. Don used Saxon math and multi-sensory games for a supplement. His house used unit studies for science. He made it clear that his children were required to unblemished science and math study, and even required his girls to unblemished calculus for high school graduation.
To encourage a love of math in the younger grades, as Don Peter recommends, I used the book house Math. It is filled with fun math games and activities for grades K-8. We played math games frequently during the week, and my children loved it! In middle school I used the book house Math for Middle School, and Patty Paper Geometry. In the upper levels, I tried to encourage the love of math using Teaching firm lectures like "Calculus Made Clear" and others.
Homeschool High School - Math Is underlying
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