Posted on 03/13/2015 5:59:30 AM PDT by PROCON
You are correct that in general India is doing a WAY better job of educating their people in math than we do.
And that many H1B’s are very smart people.
But you know as well as I that the pool is also replete with fraudsters surviving on fake resumes.
He would be eligible to teach in this country.
He was being creative. 15 + 06 = 17 makes sense. 1+0=1 for the tens place. In the ones place, you have 5,6, and naturally the next number is 7.
So, 17 makes perfect sense.
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