Professor Andrew Hacker has been a vociferous critic of math and how private companies seek to alter the curriculum of schools to put so much of a focus of mathematics masteration for success of the student. hacker had written a piece I the New York Times some time back about why society inflicts algebra, geometry, trigonometry on students regardless of the diverse and select interests of these kids.
The interest in Hacker's questioning soon lead to a book called "The Math Myth" where professor hacker expands on his voice of the unnecessary of these math skills will prove for so may people and how it is a big corporate scam for tutoring companies and the corporate culture to enforce nepotism and inequality. Professor Hacker rings up the fact that higher math is used to weed people out of college and the system and this is the sad reality of much of this increased focus and demands of math in high school and post-secondary education Andrew says there should not be such a focus on STEM especially given how few STEM jobs and skills set for future occupations concerning of all of this intense math teachings. Students need to pursue other interests and Hacker often complains that all of this math rigorness prevents students from learning other skills and talents being developed in their growing and learning minds. hacker brings out many myths that the large testing book publishers, tutoring companies delusional teaching beaurecrats , date OCC, backers all push the myth that there is a dangerous level of mathematical knowledge in this country and that it poses a threat. hacker says the disastrous common core education standards for the whole country has been a tendentious goal of the small mandarin class of people who inheritanly have a love for mathematics and natural skill and want to mold a society that financially reward people like them more for their talent in number obsession. A mastery of math is a rather unimportant talent as Hacker writes in this thought provoking book and he explains they put such a big emphasize of necessity for knowledge and skill in this basis others and all to attempt to master knowig foo well most will not thus elevating the importance of this knowledge few care as such. 
Andrew Hacker knows math is dumb and not practical for most people and professions and is a tool used by the elites to vet and give extra allowances for their sons and daughters to get the extreme tutoring and knowledge to give them a leg up in the educational and selection system of the prestigious crucial schools that all your top leaders must come from to be running things.
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