My perfectly adequate, slightly above average daughter has just started high school. And is doing well so far - in the top 30% according to her teachers. She's not as smart or talented as her two older siblings who know Marie Curie's middle name and Frederick Douglass's birthday, but I still took her teacher's praise to mean she had some basic, bare minimum academics.
However, imagine my shock when I quizzed my poor slackjawed little lady - who is two whole months into the 9th grade!!! - and she couldn't do any calculus. She couldn't explain the difference between an integral or a derivative, and couldn't even make the connection between a derivative and a rate of change. I asked her if the name LaGrange or Riemann meant anything to her, and she had no clue. Epsilon-delta questions just left her blankly staring.
Now, I dont mean this post as a gotcha - I love my daughter, almost as much as her two older siblings who could do differential equations at her age. Her teachers say they focus on skills rather than memorizing formulas, but I'm a little shocked my girl can't even do basic math?
How can I convince her teachers to let me tell them how to do their jobs and change their curriculum because I know better than them?
Submitted October 02, 2025 at 10:41PM by SnowWrestling69 https://ift.tt/hLVMois
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