People with lower IQ will struggle with algebra. Better question is why are these low IQ folks in college at all?
Racist! Bigot! Sexist!
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I consulted at a college, who prided itself on its "diversity". Since all of the smart diversity went to good schools - not a 3rd string safety school like this one - the college was left with the dregs. They *STILL* couldn't get diversity in the correct numbers, so the college subsidized their education.
End result? A college half-populated with marginal-to-fair non-diverse students taking worthless "XXXX Studies" degrees, whose tuition supported the other half. The other half was comprised of the barely literate, who were pursuing degrees in disciplines like "Social Justice and Community Organizing" (not a joke, not sarcasm), who were looking to kill a few years' time for little-to-no cost.
This, in general, was looked at as a positive situation by faculty, staff, and students. I've no idea what the students thought when they graduated with worthless diplomas and 100K in student loans. Few of them were very bright, I doubt they gave it much consideration.
So if first you don’t succeed, try again.
Has now become...
If first you don’t succeed, lower the standards.
In the 70’s I was #2 in academics (math major) for my ROTC Class, #3 was a chemistry major. The #1 ranking was to a PE major.
As the saying goes, “Life's not fair, get over it.”
A college degree has become a participation award for some. I can say that when I watch individuals who either:
1) Do not advance their opportunity and apply themselves in a work position worthy of their education, or
2) They get their affirmative action card repeatedly punched and satisfy a race quota in some organization, still not performing par with their stated education.
Algebra pulls on our thought processes in a different way and required that we understand how to factor unknowns into a decision process and solve for the unknowns. It is a basis for critical thinking. Without it, we are just going with the flow - Fat, Dumb and Happy
I would suggest four categories:
1. The people who naturally fall in line with algebra.
2. The people who need a seasoned instructor to introduce it to them and lay out the various uses.
3. The people who see zero use in their life with algebra.
4. The people with the low IQ, who ought to be digging ditches, stocking shelves, flipping burgers, or driving city buses.
People with lower IQ will struggle with algebra.
Actually, nothing further from truth.
As a person who has had opportunity to observe psychological tests on hundreds of people, significantly higher accomplishment of/ aptitude for either math or verbal is present. But rarely both.
There is no correlation of Math aptitude to I.Q.
The good Lord spreads out in telling gifts his way.
People with lower IQ will struggle with algebra.
Actually, nothing further from truth.
As a person who has had opportunity to observe psychological tests on hundreds of people, significantly higher accomplishment of/ aptitude for either math or verbal is present. But rarely both.
There is no correlation of Math aptitude to I.Q.
The good Lord spreads out in telling gifts his way.