Covid is too easy a scapegoat for the decline in math scores. For decades the focus has been on reading at a detriment to everything else. Primary school teachers have dozens of credit hours of reading instruction course work and will have maybe 4-6 credit hours for math. The last 10 or so years has pushed coding and technology ahead of math now too. Covid showed that there is no foundation for math education in the US and focusing on covid as the cause is treating a symptom over the disease.
I feel like everyone having a computational device in their pocket has something to do with it.
What does having a phone have to do with teaching mathematical logic? That thought process is why there Das such a drop in math versus reading. A tool is nothing of you don’t know how to use it.
Oh no, I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be teaching math at a higher level. I’m just saying that the need to learn it has been greatly diminished for the average person
COVID literally causes brain damage.
