Posted on 08/31/2023 2:08:44 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Diego Fonseca looked at the computer and took a breath. It was his final attempt at the math placement test for his first year of college. His first three tries put him in pre-calculus, a blow for a student who aced honors physics and computer science in high school.
Functions and trigonometry came easily, but the basics gave him trouble. He struggled to understand algebra, a subject he studied only during a year of remote learning in high school.
“I didn’t have a hands-on, in-person class, and the information wasn’t really there,” said Fonseca, 19, of Ashburn, Virginia, a computer science major who hoped to get into calculus. “I really struggled when it came to higher-level algebra because I just didn’t know anything.”
Fonseca is among 100 students who opted to spend a week of summer break at George Mason University brushing up on math lessons that didn’t stick during pandemic schooling. The northern Virginia school started Math Boot Camp because of alarming numbers of students arriving with gaps in their math skills.
Colleges across the country are grappling with the same problem as academic setbacks from the pandemic follow students to campus. At many universities, engineering and biology majors are struggling to grasp fractions and exponents. More students are being placed into pre-college math, starting a semester or more behind for their majors, even if they get credit for the lower-level classes.
Colleges largely blame the disruptions of the pandemic, which had an outsize impact on math. Reading scores on the national test known as NAEP plummeted, but math scores fell further, by margins not seen in decades of testing. Other studies find that recovery has been slow. …
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We are in agreement!
I think we found the cause of Mitch's "episodes." It was the pandemic.
College students should’ve been proficient in math a decade before WuFlu was a glimmer in Fauci’s depraved mind.
Not because of the Plandemic
Basic Math is racist
Thank you.
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I will be 85 in a few weeks, and I use basic math and geometry everyday. The last time I used algebra was my soph. year in college to barely get through Algebra II in college.
My wife was in the top 5% of the RN tests she took in Illinois, Virginia and California. She used real math all day in her different roles as an RN. %’s and basic math were used all day.
Our grand daughter is also an RN and basically uses algebra and calculus to relax her brain during break time. She loves any math and was the top math student in Junior high and a top ranked private high school.
Her younger brother is a new construction project manager and uses algebra/calculus/physics all day his dad.
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