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Math, as we all have observed, is the bane of all students. It is very rare to encounter a Filipino student who loves Math and will fight for it to the death. Even fellow Mathematics students during my education days are not really teaching math just because it's easy for them but more of they see it as a challenge that needs to be overcome.
In the last three decades of doing math, those who excel at it did not really use their full potential to focus solely on math as a career, though most of them are in a career that stems from competence on the said field. Those of us left to teach it, are not bad at it but we all know that we can do better.
With the PISA results for 2018, and the Philippines in the red for Math, Reading and Science. We, educators, ask ourselves, where did it go wrong?
Was it the change to the K-12 program? Are we not ready enough?
Was it the No Child Left Behind Policy? That, in my opinion, is being wrongly executed.
Was it the level of education and mastery skills of teachers? Are all competent teachers teaching abroad?
Was it the curriculum?
There are too many questions that need answering. And no study has actually answered what really needs attention in the Philippine education.
A lot of situations to take into consideration. Especially with our remote schools in far-flung areas in mountain regions and middle of nowhere islands.
And the primary problem, the COVID situation that is still not being addressed or taken seriously (the Malacanan boasting that they beat the UP prediction, when in fact predictions always comes with a margin of error; another show that our Math education is really not up to par), to add in all these literacy difficulties that we need to face.
With the new normal in our horizon come August 2020, and we are no closer to answer the questions that came even before the PISA results came out. How will the Filipino students and teachers take a stance and hopefully improve our scores in the next PISA Test?
Hopefully, I will not see another comment that the PISA Test was biased and does not reflect the learning of the Filipino students. I am praying though that, that comment did not come from a math teacher.
As it stands, the student should always be better than the teacher. History has shown us this.
So if we have poor students, what does that make of the teacher?
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On another note, since Math is a subject that is best learned when doing it.
How can we ensure that our students will be able to understand the remote discussion? How can we check that they are actually doing their part in learning their lessons?
The dilemma is as real as it gets, and granted that we cannot really know. The only answer left is to provide our future students with good lecture and lecture notes that they can learn from with the limited resources available to us and them.
Be it modules, notes, videos, and online links. I hope that each and every educator will arm themselves for their students and take into consideration that the Philippines is not a "techie" nation even if everybody is on Facebook and/or Twitter.
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Lastly, I am doing a series of math lecture/tutorial videos.
If in the future, your children, nieces, nephews, and what-not need additional lectures.
Just give me a heads up on what mathematics topic, and what language (Filipino, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, English) the student prefer it in, and I'll be happy to create a youtube video for the said difficulties.
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Daghang salamat sa pagbasa!!!
