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(09-06-2017 03:45 AM)Dan Wrote:  Teachers are always blamed for all of society's ills! Mathematics is not popular with many people because it requires one to think. Teachers do the best they can with the curriculum they are required to teach and the limited time they have to prepare students for their examinations.

That is true. In my anecdotal experience I had both cases. Pupils unwilling to think and teachers unwilling to think (and therefore teaching poorly).

I also had wonderful math teachers that nevertheless had in the class people unwilling to think.

(09-06-2017 04:14 AM)John Cadick Wrote:  Anyway, I hope I haven't offended anyone.

Serious question: does the order of operation offend someone? I wanted to clarify about Europe because I perceived the sentence like "In Europe sometimes they use funny rules" while the mainstream rules - I guess - are the same almost everywhere.