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When entrepreneur Elon Musk made titles With their loud comments supporting the H-1B VISA program, the discussion focused on the implications of their position on immigration.
But this discussion curved the reason that America has such a program at all: his domestic students are poorly educated in mathematics.
According to Federal Law, the H-1B program gives visas to foreigners who come to perform services “in a special occupation”. Special occupation is defined as a necessary “theoretical and practical application of the body of highly specialized knowledge”, plus the requirements of higher education.
It’s a program annually limited to 65,000 regular H-1B visas, with another 20,000 for those strangers who have acquired advanced diplomas from US universities.
The founder of Spacex and Tesla Elon Musk said that the technological industry has a great need for workers through H-1B visas and embarked on a national debate. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Considering the Musk Fierce Program Support, it is not surprising that the federal report states that in 2023, “computer-related occupations were the biggest great interest, which made up 65% of all users [of the program]. “Compared to less than 1% H-1B of visas, it received foreigners in social sciences.
While much of covering the discussion about H-1B focuses on the angle of foreign to American workers, a real question regarding H-1BS is that now they fail to produce domestic Workers with the necessary mathematical skills They require Musk Spacex and other high -tech companies.
2024. The shocking 72% of the eighth grade students attended the national assessment of the educational progress of the mathematical examination failed to score at the experience of the experience-existent 6% increase compared to 66% of the eighth grade who failed to achieve knowledge in 2019.
Why do US students work so badly in mathematics? The answer lies in the inefficient mathematical instructions they receive.
In the early 2010s, most countries accepted the common basic national standards of education, which were advertised as a cure for US mathematical troubles. Unfortunately, Common Core proved to be a bad remedy.
The usual core confused many students, emphasizing indirect ways to reach the right answer, instead of just learning direct mathematical surgery.
For example, in multiplication of numbers, children are often required to draw pictures instead of simply remembering the multiplication tables.
Michael Malione, a professional teacher of mathematics in California, said his students had sent their public schools to draw and seductive different areas of rectangles when multiplying fractions, not just by multiplying the counter and multiplication of denominators to get the correct answer. The demanding of students to learn math in this way and ineffective and ineffective.
Why do US students work so badly in mathematics? The answer lies in the inefficient mathematical instructions they receive.
“We’ll draw a picture every time they get 10 factional multiplication problems when you can do them in your head?” Asks Malione. “That’s crazy.”
Malione sees students “who are completely lost and not early in step by step.”
Considering Malione’s experience, it is not surprising that the funded study found that Common Core had significant negative effects on the mathematical achievement of the eighth grade.
Mathematics professors at the faculties are shocked by the poor mathematical skills of students.
One mathematics instructor in the Silicon Valley complained that the lack of knowledge of the algebra “is the” lack of number one and chronic “. He said, “We do not produce the types of students and graduates that Silicon Valley needs.”
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Sugi Sorensen, a top engineer in a well -known jet laborator who also taught math students, called for a return to proven traditional mathematical practices, which includes mastering the basic skills of adding, seizure, multiplication and division through “memory of mathematical facts and procedures” Students “can make calculating quickly, accurately and effortlessly.”
Furthermore, mathematical themes should be consecutive, “where new terms were built in previously learned on a structured, hierarchical way,” Sorensen said.
Finally, Sorensen recommends that mathematical operations like a long division “explicitly teach and practice to mastery,” with an emphasis on accuracy.
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America has nearly 50 million K-12 students. If schools use proven mathematical methods of teaching instead of failed progressive techniques, there would be less need for H-1B visas, because there would be more than enough young Americans with skills that companies need. Technological titans on Trump’s inauguration should rely on schools to do so. It’s time to make mathematics again great.
Lance invention is a higher director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute. The author is at the book Great Challapse: teachers, students and parents discover collapse of learning in American schools.
