Originally Posted by inky
I agree with the first statement and have been horrified by the math phobia I've seen from some teachers. While retired engineers could make good math teachers for students whom math is intuitively obvious, it can be a pretty bad fit for struggling math students.

Two of our retired PEs teach remedial math and Calculus as insructors at our local Community College. They get pretty high marks. So based on this, I'd have to disagree.

Just one other thing - if some has a very high verbal ability, then they will do very well at math. They just need the exposure. The real mathy stuff like proofs may be more accessible to them than the highly visual stuff in Calculus. Just something to think about.


Last edited by Austin; 10/20/09 03:26 PM.