today I decided to write about a subject that has to do with the mathematical knowledge, but not about numbers, sets, areas of triangles, or all of those topics that we teach in school. So what is it? It is the global phobia have many students of mathematics. immediately we would have to ask: what is the reason? Is there a global conspiracy by those who teach mathematics, so this is hard to understand the students? Frankly I’d rather not believe this, but I bear witness that many universities in many countries have “star teachers.” But teachers who are the stars? Are those responsible for making the filter in the university, especially when there are more students than they should have.
These teachers are identified because they are bitter at the time of examination, since it places very high level mathematical exercises, which perhaps only they could invent or solve them. As an engineering student, I witnessed this, as we had feared reference “star teacher the third quarter “was a” prominent “because of an average of thirty or forty students show up for their course, only about two or three had the possibility of adopting its current integral calculus or math. Now I wonder Is this the true philosophy of mathematical knowledge? honestly do not believe and I say this by applying the Japanese philosophy, on the mathematical understanding, because to them it is a process that the student must be step by step and the best of this philosophy is the students just happen to the next level, until his teacher has been that this student has understood the topic, ie a little more work for teachers in Japanese and not as our Latin America, the teacher has become a “qualifier mathematical exercise, this is hard to recognize, but we must face it to start changing.
I am sure that mathematics are not difficult, because I had the good fortune to understand this science and we should give it a totally different approach to education that is being given, but this mission is not only the teachers, too corresponds to the psychological panic students leave this area and the first thing you should remove the language is that famous little phrase “I’m bad at math.” when we begin to look with different eyes and another thought, surely increase the number of students to begin to “understand the mathematical language.” This is the secret of mathematical understanding. We should be starting this task and for this many governments should restructure honestly how we evaluate students, and that it is better to understand a few things for life, to understand many things, just for an exam, which a few hours we have forgotten. I hope this letter will serve as a reflection and analysis for those who want a change in education that promotes the understanding of our next generations..