Talk:Mathematics education

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This page is pretty rampant with non-NPOV sentiments, isn't it? -Chinju

Maybe. Why don't you try to fix it? :P wshun 21:39, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

"Algebra II/Trigonometry" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Mathematics education effects on the economy of the United States" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Unnecessary Eurocentrism

Hello,

I’m curious why the leading sentence of this page denotes how the phrase “math education” is labeled in Europe. This is a Eurocentric element, considering math education occurs all over the world, and each geographical region may have a respective term for the subject. Aside from a biased viewpoint, these points should not be in the lead sentence due to cluttering (see MOS:LEADCLUTTER). Zyploc (talk) 19:17, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

For the countries where the term used is a direct translation of "mathematical education", this is certainly not useful to provide such a translation. Here the European term is far from the English one. So many people who have encountered the two terms may be confused by the fact that they refer to the same thing. This is true for people originated from anywhere in the world, even for American and Chinese ones. D.Lazard (talk) 21:03, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

I am finding this short conversation difficult to follow Where is "Here"? HiLo48 (talk) 23:33, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Here means "in this Wikipedia article" or "in this context". The point is, the subject commonly in America called mathematics education or just math education, is also known by such names mathematical pedagogy or the didactics of mathematics in other parts of the world. –jacobolus (t) 23:51, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Certainly, I appreciate your input and viewpoint. Perhaps it would be best to conserve the alternative terminologies, but place them in a subsequent sentence or a later section? I have no personal stake in this matter; rather I'd like for the article's style to be as inclusive as possible. Zyploc (talk) 02:17, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

If you have specific other synonyms for this which are reflective of reliable sources, feel free to add those. The point of including synonyms in Wikipedia articles is to help people with different backgrounds understand what the topic is supposed to be about, not to promote particular terminology. –jacobolus (t) 04:55, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

PISA

The PISA scores should be updated with more recent data which can be found on the main article. Whoever generated the chart in current use left some countries out of the ordering, and also decided to break up US scores by racial background. What's up with that? Don't you think it'd be more appropriate to address that issue on the PISA article, or one of the numerous controversial articles on "race" differences in standardized test scores? Jonathan f1 (talk) 03:54, 18 September 2024 (UTC)