Comments on: Math Ability: Is It The Kids Or The Method Of Teaching Them? https://barelyablog.com/math-ability-is-it-the-kids-or-the-method-of-teaching-them/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chris Peck https://barelyablog.com/math-ability-is-it-the-kids-or-the-method-of-teaching-them/comment-page-1/#comment-28732 Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:03:41 +0000 https://barelyablog.com/?p=155804#comment-28732 If you want to become proficient in solving math problems don’t solve one or two of the problems at the end of the chapter. Solve them all!! Perfect practice makes perfect. If it was easy everyone would be good at math. It takes hard work.

]]> By: Randall Paul Allen https://barelyablog.com/math-ability-is-it-the-kids-or-the-method-of-teaching-them/comment-page-1/#comment-28438 Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:06:10 +0000 https://barelyablog.com/?p=155804#comment-28438 “But the East Asian nations are relatively homogeneous and have kids with the good potential (IQ). Although important, the statistically significant variance is to be found, I would wager, in the kind of population, more than in the method of teaching, however important.”

If by “kind of population” you mean “culture”, I’d say you’re spot on. Thomas Sowell has written extensively on how culture is probably the most important factor in “success”, including in education.

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