{"id":262160,"date":"2023-09-28T19:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=262160"},"modified":"2023-09-29T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T12:59:45","slug":"devotion-of-teacher-x-individual-and-national-futures-depend-on-math-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/devotion-of-teacher-x-individual-and-national-futures-depend-on-math-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Of Teacher X \u2013 Individual and national futures depend on math skills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201cDevotion of Teacher X \u2013 Individual and national futures depend on math skills, which depend on good teacher training<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>The Times of India <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>28<sup>th<\/sup> September 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong><strong>GS 2 \u2013 Social Issues &#8211; Issues Related with Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong>concerns with math proficiency in India<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>India should be more worried about poor math skills than the United States because the ASER survey shows that the situation in India is grim.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the key highlights of the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>According to ASER survey<\/strong>, only about 20% of Class III students in both government and private schools can do subtraction, and this percentage has remained consistently low for the past decade<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is because India has not been participating in the Pisa competition<\/strong>, which makes it difficult to compare math skills globally.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the US has participated in Pisa and its students score lower than those in 36 other education systems, with China having the highest score.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What can be done to enhance math skills?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>India needs to learn from other countries to improve its math skills. <strong>For instance,<\/strong> Vietnam&#8217;s high Pisa scores are attributed to a strong focus on teacher training, which India should also prioritize.<\/p>\n<p>India, like the United States, have risk of falling behind in terms of individual and national prosperity due to a weak math education system.<\/p>\n<p>This is because the ability to adapt to technological advancements and the AI-driven job market relies heavily on one&#8217;s math skills.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, <strong>the quality of math education in both the US and India depends on the competence of teachers<\/strong>, so it is important to address this issue and improve math education at all levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cDevotion of Teacher X \u2013 Individual and national futures depend on math skills, which depend on good teacher training\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a028th September 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Social Issues &#8211; Issues Related with Education Relevance: concerns with math proficiency in India News: India&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/devotion-of-teacher-x-individual-and-national-futures-depend-on-math-skills\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Devotion Of Teacher X \u2013 Individual and national futures depend on math skills<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,8131,10496],"class_list":["post-262160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-social-issues","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}