Mathematics is perhaps the one subject in schools that deems itself as the hardest where even the best students feels harsh. That is why the new, reading-heavy mathematics in the SAT has thousands of students worried because it makes the hard math even harder (clipping 5). Besides, teaching mathematics could be a hot potato in some areas. As clipping 8 shown, students’ academic underachievement in math has made Stoke offered to pay off the tuition fees of mathematics teachers who come to work in the city. Also, from the perspective of finding jobs, a senior professor Andrew Hacker who taught political science even made an assertion that maths is not an essential skill for most of people because the quantity of people who use either in their
