Comment Re:Why do teachers want to lose their jobs? (Score 1) 594
Because teaching math is actually hard?
A lot of students have difficulties with math even though they have a human teacher who can explain things to them in a number of different ways. Why would a dumb computer program be any better?
Sure, arithmetics could probably be trained using computers, but I don't think a game would be the most effective way to learn new concepts, like polynoms, probability theory, etc.
Also, you couldn't ask the computer if you had problems understanding some concept or if you have forgotten something. Teachers sometimes have problems catching systematic errors that students do, and explaining why they are wrong. You'd be surprised by what students can come up with, it would be completely impossible to make a program (with our current technology) which could point out the flaws in their reasoning.
A lot of students have difficulties with math even though they have a human teacher who can explain things to them in a number of different ways. Why would a dumb computer program be any better?
Sure, arithmetics could probably be trained using computers, but I don't think a game would be the most effective way to learn new concepts, like polynoms, probability theory, etc.
Also, you couldn't ask the computer if you had problems understanding some concept or if you have forgotten something. Teachers sometimes have problems catching systematic errors that students do, and explaining why they are wrong. You'd be surprised by what students can come up with, it would be completely impossible to make a program (with our current technology) which could point out the flaws in their reasoning.
