>>13400074Contrary to what a lot of people think, spatial reasoning is not the number 1 key. Actually, both verbal reasoning and abstract reasoning, along with working memory outrank spatial reasoning for any part of math besides basic geometry.
People who struggle with spatial reasoning, might find some parts of math a little more challenging, but this can be overcome.
On the other hand, anyone who severely lacks working memory, verbal reasoning, or especially abstract reasoning will have a hard time with math.
Good teachers (from an early age) can improve this, but there don't really exist any good teachers, because none of them understand math themselves.
The reason some people are so good at math is because they don't listen to the teacher, rather they figure things out for themselves (due to high verbal and abstract reasoning). Such people are few and far between (usually men, since it requires high disagreeableness and openness). This level of math ability can also be taught, if the kid has the right teacher from a young age.
For the average person however, they have neither the natural talent, nor a sufficient teacher to learn math properly, and thus they fall into the same path that their teacher followed - seeing math as boring and hard, and never understanding it. The ones who score A's and B's will be seen to get jobs in e.g. engineering, accounting, or high school teaching. The elementary school teachers will be the students who got C's and D's, thus continuing the cycle.
Nothing can be done to improve this system though. It is both so thoroughly flawed and so thoroughly ingrained in society, that a full overhaul would never be accepted. The retard teachers would cry about losing their jobs, everyone would cry over their tax money going to pay actually qualified individuals to teach their kids.
