I have seen these videos on and off for some years now but its only when I have taken a close look at Taiwan to see how a vibrant media and lead to quirky informative news briefs like this. Bit insane to think an island of twenty million has as many tv + radio feeds as is, not to mention one of the hardest wired countries.

It is true that math must be engaging, challenging, and "progressive". The reason why we're not getting the needed science majors is that math education is simply abysmal, and students often the lose the much needed early development that is intended to occur while taking Alg and Geom. We end up with stupids who were motivated in middle school, but are completely sick and afraid of math. And we also have a huge amount of willing students failing their initial calculus classes due to poor preparation. All math is built upon those few introductory classes, and they must be the best in order to correctly deliver such key knowledge.