Originally Posted by MagnaSky
In addition, our elementary school teachers are not math teachers, they may have minored in math, but they are not specialists. High school teachers are supposed to be,

Very few HS math teachers have taken math beyond calculus. Most have zero interest in number theory or Euclid's Elements. And the situation gets worse in Middle School. And it is abysmal in elementary school.

The very top school districts have true specialists but most other schools do not.