After Covid, only one in four students know math
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That is by design. Someone who is illiterate cannot consume propaganda, someone who is innumerate cannot refute it.
Ii love that quote
Was only 1 in 3 before, apparently too much common core and equitable math has left kids completely incompetent…
Not that many could do it before that, either, but Obama and his D.C. Qwane that developed CC nuked the few who were struggling.
quarter pounder moment
I started teaching this year and I’ve discovered most kids can’t read either. As in they literally cannot do it.
I keep hearing this, off and on throughout my life, and it's always been something I find so perplexing. I mean, outside of major learning disabilities like dyslexia, I just can't fathom how anyone can have so much trouble with it. Even more-so with how much more commonly in-use it is with widespread access to the Internet.
Writing on the other hand I can totally understand slipping, either in part due to, or in spite of Internet access.
OMG [hrtbrk.png] [CryFace] u no it we rite on internet 4eva, how ken pee pole think we donno how2 reed? [Cryemojii] [Cryemojii]
...That physically hurt to write. But really, look at "youth" internet. It's a mishmash of symbols, shorthand, phonetic spelling, and emoji.
A bit how like younger Japanese grew up with word processors that automatically converts their words to kanji, so although they can still read fairly easily, they no longer really know how to write in Japanese.
Step 1: Teach every kid the same course plan as you use to teach dyslexics.
Step 2: Get confused why everyone's reading like dyslexics.
My wife teaches and says the same.
How old?
If it's below double digit then it's salvageable. If above then it's a nuclear siren.
The ninth graders I've been working with average about a 2nd grade reading level.
If they learn math, they might not buy as much on cell phone games purpose-built to make their math difficult to figure out.
Sadly this has never been more relevant
Not especially surprising. It's not the easiest subject for most students to progress or advance on, nor is it the easiest subject to teach. It's also a subject/skillset that so seldomly comes into play (outside of the very basics) in most hobbies or recreational activities.
Programming is probably the one avenue I've come across in my personal life where I've found myself actively relearning and introducing myself to less familiar mathematical concepts.
Carpentry uses basic trig. Gambling uses probability and estimated results. More basic, shopping usually uses basic multiplication or division.
The average person doesn't need to know more than the most basic trig and calc, except on a conceptual level to recognize it when they see it. But they do need to know the actual core basics.
The sheer number of people who don't know the concept of a stepped tax rate and how one works is staggering. And that's REALLY basic math, simple addition and multiplication.
Try being a carpenter that can't add fractions in his head and watch everyone else laugh at you.
Try being a normie that can't conceptualize statistics trying to deal with Covid numbers and freaking out.
Math is important.
We will be suffering the consequences of this for generations to come.
I cannot properly articulate the degree of contempt and hostility I hold for everyone who orchestrated and supported this over the last several years.
They blame covid but it's really due to demographics. Hardly any white people in grade 8 anymore.
Damn, I'm glad I homeschool.
My big worry now is that my kids will be ostracized for actually being able to do complex math...
At what point in history was someone with math skills not ostracized and treated like a weird pet at best?