>>11869669I've taught standardised curriculum as a tutor.
>>11869671>it's not the teachers' fault>they just don't bother to work out what the students care about and how to make math about thatUnbelievable.
How many things in the world are math related?
Practically everything.
What do you need math for?
Practically everything.
If they're in a math classroom, you can learn their souls and cause them to want to learn.
What a shameless fucking attitude.
Imagine if I became a drill instructor and said "oh well you know the men aren't really into soldiering".
Fuck that.
Imagine if I was a mechanic and said "oh, well, the car doesn't really seem to already be working" and shrugged, then expected to be paid.
People are, at some level, a mechanical puzzle. You work out what their interests are and teach in terms of that. You work out what their motivations are and explain how what you're doing helps them achieve their motivations. If it isn't immediately obvious, you find a way.
What am I, the Michelangelo of teaching, or are you people just fucking lazy?
You learn their world to understand where authority derives from to them, and what they already have in terms of knowledge you can use to explain things.
I don't want to dox myself by accident, but I managed to teach high school math in terms of a very particular niche area someone was interested in, a sport they like, a particular game they're into. And not in a way as simple as just swapping words in existing problems, but by explaining the relation that the math we're doing has to the things they're interested in, to a fairly full on extent.
Students caring or not is not itself a fixed, unchanging, mysterious thing that teachers can reasonably claim to have no agency over. Unless they want to admit that they're braindead fuckwits who should be unemployed, or working happily in another field.
>hurrr I can't write ad copy because people don't already want to buy the products 
