Are you familiar with these curricular coherence charts?

There's little organized progression to math teaching in most US K-12 programs. We're so bad at teaching math that Algebra 2 is the leading cause of academic dropouts: https://t.co/w60EGMoOxh pic.twitter.com/cmRNB2vX5S

— Charles Wang (@cfwang1337) May 5, 2021

I could understand absolutely nothing in Algebra 2. I never successfully solved/figured out the first equation in that class, and I took it twice. From the first day on I had no idea what was going on, even when I was trying.

One of my two teachers was even pretty good I think — but I just have no talent for math and shouldn’t have been required to take a class so irrelevant to my (and nearly everyone’s) life. I sat in that class for a full two years, understanding nothing. Complete waste of time.