Posted on 03/27/2025 9:55:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Just how bad is our education system in America?
Harvard University is being forced to launch a remedial math course for its students.
The university is spinning this is only being done to make up for gaps in entering students’ algebra skills that it blames on lockdowns. Sure lockdowns were an unforgivable mistake.
But the bigger question: how are students getting into America’s most elite college without knowing algebra, which is taught starting in junior high? The elite school has a 3.4% acceptance rate for applicants.
What does this tell us about the math skills of the other 96% of high school grads?
Where is the class of 2018 now? Yale’s “Four-Year Look” at employment
Going to G o o g l e.
LOL! Nah. I don't scratch any more. 😊
The thread is about students needing remedial math, not coding.
Who are you to think that you can rule that posters to a thread are not allowed introduce closely related subjects?
What is it about coding operations that frightens you?
The example is presented on a thread about students not knowing math but it’s not related to the topic.
As if one could dislike Yale or Google more.
A) Who made you the judge of what topics are related or not?
B) Your scroll wheel doesn't work?
‘ Who made you the judge of what topics are related or not?’
Are you 12 years old?
On a thread about college students needing remedial math, an anecdote was posted about how a student walked out frustrated by an algebraic equation, as if it supports the topic.
It didn’t say it was tangentially related.
I’m in no way a math expert as I spent too many years being educated in religious schools whose emphasis was elsewhere.
I looked at the problem and asked what the actual proof was since I was unable to figure it out, which isn’t surprising.
I was then told it’s not a math problem, but a coding thing.
That’s it.
Yes. Stop hitting on me.
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