The education buildings distributed among North Campus
and South Campus on the UCLA campus

The separate worlds of the two cultures has been extremely prominent throughout my education, and may continue to play a role in my life as I pursue a future career in education.

Math education, in my eyes, has a strange way of bridging the gap between the two separate worlds of art and science. Education, resides in a domain similar to those of the arts, while math is a fundamental building block for establishing the core sciences, yet both seem to be regarded as separate bubbles related to the corresponding worlds, not fully wrapped inside it.

Student cooperation facilitates stronger
understanding of topics

Because of my focus in the field of mathematics, I try to expand my knowledge and avoid CP Snow’s educational dilemma of specialization, taking interdisciplinary GE’s, to expand from teaching kids in math, to ensuring their academic success holistically. The way American education was noted by CP Snow to be more general than British education; this developing system of common core seems to be moving towards improving better methods of education to provide the most possible for students, through interdisciplinary motivations within the context of separate subjects.

The separate worlds inhibit mathematical education as the world of pure mathematics promotes the concept of mathematical anxiety, which incorporates the need to attend to psychology and teaching methods to promote success in mathematics. Education has now become focused on ingraining certain practices that draw from techniques used in other subjects, such as the ability to develop reasoning through words and verbal explanations, straying from the common practice of simply solving problems through repetition.

Sources:
Snow, C.P. "Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution." Reading. 1959. New York: Cambridge, UP, 1961. Print.

Vesna, Victoria. "Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between." Leonardo 34.2 (2001): 121-25. Web.

RSA, The. “RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms.” YouTube, YouTube, 14 Oct. 2010, www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=zDZFcDGpL4U.

“Mathematics Standards.” Mathematics Standards | Common Core State Standards Initiative, www.corestandards.org/Math/.

Terada, Youki. “How Metacognition Boosts Learning.” Edutopia, George Lucas Educational Foundation, 21 Nov. 2017, www.edutopia.org/article/how-metacognition-boosts-learning.