Kansas Universities may drop algebra graduation requirement because students find algebra too difficult: Don't even mention Calculus

American Thinker ^ | 12/18/2022 | Eric Utter

[Rummyfan]

Kansas Universities may drop algebra graduation requirement because students find algebra too difficult...

Algebra?! It's an eighth grade subject!

[Mr. Jeeves]

Why not just offer Bachelor of Pseudoscience degrees with no work required? The ego is stroked, employers are warned, and universities and students alike can save a lot of money and time.

[Rummyfan]

So I would urge us all to … find ways to find the bandwidth to keep this moving along.”

Find the bandwidth?! WTF? Find some smarts and a willingness to work and learn.

[Puppage]

Send kids out of country for higher education

We could….but then parking at the airport is difficult sooooo…it would be just like algebra.

[coloradan]

“Now move 3x to the other side.”

“That’s way too difficult.”

[fidelis]

Algebra is overrated anyway. I took all of the algebra requirements I had to in high school and college and have never used it in the 40 years since.

Later, I had to learn basic trigonometry to learn land surveying (before it became computerized) and simple equations to run a fire truck (before that became more programmable). To me, it's more practical to teach people the math they actually need than having them take years of it just to say they took it.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Most College Graduates These Days Are Women

[alternatives?]

I bet they won’t drop the foreign language requirement.

The Algebra requirement probably has an adverse impact on women and some minorities.

[nwrep]

True. But they are swimming upstream in our public education system.

[nwrep]

Haha. Great graph. You will be called a Nazi just for citing this.

[Reily]

You used it; you just don’t realize you did!

And you use forms of it all the time and don’t realize it.

The reason you may find what I say baffling is because algebra is so poorly taught!

[Night Hides Not]

That’s it! I demand having my calculus grade changed from a B to an A. That cost me a 4.0 my senior year…lol.

[coloradan]

8-year-olds can understand and solve Balance Benders and related problems - which are about 80% of algebra, but without the alphanumeric symbols.

[NorthMountain]

The Algebra requirement probably has an adverse impact on women and some minorities.

Not "probably". "Certainly".

[Night Hides Not]

My Christmas present to my 12YO grandson is a bevy of self study books to supplement his video game playing time…lol.

And a $500 contribution to his college fund.

[dsrtsage]

Kansas must be much more diversier than I previously thought

[ptsal]

Look what happens when engineering is dumbed down.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“ As and employer I am nearly at the point of considering a college degree completely useless.”

I don’t hire Ivy League grads, with the exception of MIT.

[Michael.SF.]

Does this include for engineering majors?

[Reily]

Possibly the best algebra book every written!
Written for those who just want to do algebra, not written to try and turn K12 students into budding mathematicians.

https://www.amazon.com/Realm-Algebra-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0449243982