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Originally Posted by Gurkha
I teach math post graduate level and can tell you, no one is weak inn math, its the approach to teaching it thats the bane, the US system is pretty bad, its actually lax, I can say that as have taught high school level as well when I was an undergrad student and standards are just pathetic. When I joined college here, I went straight to advanced math classes, same was the case with most students from my country as well as China, Taiwan etc. In recent math Olympiads, US did pretty shoddily, they really need to do a total revamp and math is hip culture has to be bought back from kindergarten level.
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I'll have to forgive your spelling, considering your location. Perhaps I should also forgive the idea that "nobody is weak in mathematics."
I completely disagree. While you may run into a lot of people who are good at it, it takes a lot more work for most people to grasp even simple mathematical ideas than it does for someone like yourself.
If you are saying that anyone can understand high-school algebra or plane geometry, I'll concede. But I do not think that everyone finds it easy. And I do not think that just anyone can pick up a copy of Lang and get past the first page.