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  • There is almost no mathematics in ‘mathematics education’.

    So you agree that the two shouldn’t be conflated? Because that’s what the text does, I have to agree with the above comment, particularly in the title and then by discussing problems that are inherent to most modern education regardless of the particular subject (student stress, extensive subjection of learning and knowledge to capitalist goals).

    People are trained in calculation, not critical thinking

    1. That’s why the subject is called maths and not critical thinking.

    2. ‘Training’ in ‘critical thinking’ is a questionable concept in the first place.

    3. The text does not advocate for using math for training in critical thinking, as far as I see it’s even skeptical of such an approach.

    student-led education

    The article doesn’t argue for that either.

    I don’t understand if you even really agree with the article, if you’re defending the article in this comment, or are defending some of your personal ideas that you do or do not believe align with the article.