2024/01/09/the-most-important-math-exams-of-my-life

Really interesting insights on the Romanian and the Eastern Bloc education system. And I couldn't avoid comparing with the case in Brazil (where I come from) and possibly in other latin american countries. While there are public schools and universities that are free for everyone, the schools are really bad in most cases and we can only find "elite school" in private ones, but it's also not a rule, as most of the private ones are pretty bad too (that's what happens when everything is a product: decreased quality to be able to offer better competitive prices). And not to surprise, latinos don't have any obsession with Math, in fact, according to the PISA scores, Latin America has one of the lowest scores in the World.

I am victim of that system, my school math curriculum was really bad (and I did study in a good-ish private school). Following the Capacitate exam, I see that I could probably do fine back when I was 15, but Bacalaureat, not even freshly out of our high-school equivalent I would be able to do. Actually, it seems like our curriculum wouldn't cover much more than half of the one you described, and I myself probably wasn't very well trained in half of that.

I wish we latinos had more incentive to learn Math. I might have heard about Math Olympiad at school like twice, but not in an encouraging way. After many years of working as a programmer I understood that many of my problems learning more advanced concepts (especially in graphics and audio programming) is my flawed math foundation. Now I'm running after that!

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