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Posted on 11/20/2025 5:40:25 PM PST by Rummyfan
The University of California system went “test-free” five years ago. SAT and ACT scores aren’t considered in admissions. The percentage of new students who can’t meet high school — or middle school — standards soared.
At UC San Diego, where remedial math enrollment went from 30 in 2020 to 900 this year, a tutor said students can’t think their way through a word problem.
“We call it quantitative literacy, just knowing which fraction is larger or smaller, that the slope is positive when it is going up,” Janine Wilson, the chair of the undergraduate economics program at UC Davis, told Horowitch. “We are just seeing many folks without that capability.“
Students seem to think they don’t need to learn math, said Maria Emelianenko, chair of George Mason University’s math department. AI will do it for them.
“Who is going to trust somebody who got a degree in airline engineering who doesn’t know how to think through a problem without a computer telling them the answer?” Brian Conrad, a Stanford math professor, said. “The premise that foundational ideas don’t need to be learned anymore is a recipe for idiocracy.”
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And here I sit still having nightmares that I flunked Differential Equations and have to retake 25 years after graduation.
And people wonder why the Chinese may be a problem...
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If the commies had conspired to destroy America’s future by destroying the next generation’s ability to think, what would look different?
Whelp.... didn’t flunk it just dropped it after three weeks due to a lack of paper. Not that I needed the class.... took it just out of curiosity from the only teacher that taught the class at that particular time. Turned out he was way overdue for retirement.
Where is “airline engineering” a degree program other than in Brian Conrad’s mind ?
so now we know why AI is being considered to be a foregone conclusion and an essential feature of our future
“At UC San Diego, where remedial math enrollment went from 30 in 2020 to 900 this year, a tutor said students can’t think their way through a word problem. “
And I’m sure all of them have received student loans and don’t have a prayer of ever paying them back!
What an absolute travesty. It’s nothing short of criminality.
Imagine giving a Ph.D. to someone who can’t read. Soon you won’t have to.
Well, actually, that is what did happen.
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