But not the 12 years of primary and secondary education.
Wearing a mask and getting the Jab was not a good move for the many.
He struggled to understand algebra
Wow. I hope he gets a firm grasp on this discipline.
I mean, we use Algebra everyday.
Not...
I dealt with this issue back in 1990 when I was an academic advisor at a major university. That is of course well before COVID. The problem is that primary education left teaching real math, science, reading, writing, and history a long time ago. Instead it’s all about indoctrination (there are of course exceptions). And it has been getting worse since then. A lot worse.
The pandemic had nothing to do with it. Overzealous government actions had a lot to do with it.
EC
Dems always wanted their slaves dumb and uneducated.
Notice the Associated Press doing the now well-honed "personal story first" opening gambit. Poor Diego Fonseca, "who aced honors physics and computer science in high school...."
That's the whole story. No one "aces" physics and computer science but cannot grasp basic high school level math.
Too bad this Diego wasn't the OTHER Diego Fonseca who did not go through America's crumbling public education system.
"I'm a Phd student of mathematics at Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia) interested in Robust Optimization, Markov decision process, Machine Learning, Neural networks, Stochastic process and Dynamical Systems. I did my undergraduate studies at Universidad Nacional de Colombia.Ass-ociated Press won't be featuring the OTHER Diego Fonseca, as a 'compare and contrast' article, because.....Source: https://math.stackexchange.com/users/165639/diego-fonseca
I agree.
Until you get used to it, thinking hard--really concentrating--is painful. It makes your head hurt in a way.
But that's math.
Math requires thinking and hard thinking at that. The better you get at it, the more you have to think. With practice, your brain starts to adapt and get better and better at the kind of logical thinking that math requires. After a while, it even becomes fun...a lot of fun.
BTW math isn't just important for the use of numbers. It also trains the brain to think logically and rationally about non-numerical problems.
Math makes a person smarter, and more capable of good, sound decisions. That may be the reason the Left doesn't like it.
How did he “ace” an honors physics course if he can’t handle basic algebra? Please.
Not the pandemic, the government lockdowns. They know very well it does no one any good.
Math is learned by reading the textbook and doing all the problem sets. Seems like it is one of the easier subjects to teach online. Lack of discipline and effort is most likely the problem.
I blame
Affirmative Action
Teachers
Parents
When I went back to college in the mid 80’s kids had problems with math. First year students were required to take a proficiency exam. If you got 6 or fewer answers correct, you had to drop back to Math 094 or 096, depending on how badly you bombed it.
The one prof, who was may age and a friend, said all the professors were miffed because they knew they should not be teaching the basic math the kids were supposed to have learned in junior high much less high school.
Just read the headline, but based on that anyone who is in college now should have had a decent grasp of math long before covid. And I say that as someone who is not good at math.
Algebra starts in 2nd grade with fractions...
he cant blame the last 3 years...
Basic math is racist and somehow colleges have turned 2 genders into 100+, can’t define a woman, believe in man made climate change, need safe spaces and can identify as any number of things.
Under performing on math is a minor issue in the big scheme of things.
“College students are still struggling with basic math. Professors blame the pandemic”
They struggled with basic math LONG BEFORE the pandemic.
The bottom line is that every successful math program avoids one thing - CALCULATORS. It’s not complicated, but it’s understandable that calculators won’t be discussed because most ‘teachers’ are Leftists and ‘Math is Hard’ for most Leftists - so they give a kid a calculator and tell him to push buttons...rather than THINK.
I went to school at 26 and had to start at Algebra, since I’d forgotten so much. I started in Spring semester, and started Calculus in Fall semester. 3 prep classes to start Calculus 1.
I’ll tell this story. I worked in DC in 2010-2013 era. Co-worker had a daughter wrapping up a Maryland high school situation, and angling for a prestigious Virginia public university. Accepted, but the school demanded she take two tests (English and math).
She has straight A’s for three years....fails both English/math tests for the college. Father is there with the counselor....’what the hell is going on’ is the drama playing out.
Girl admits that for the final two years...she took no math whatsoever, and anything related to English was some faked-up class on romantic literature for the two year period.
What the college offers? Entry, but she has to attend a non-college level English/math course deal (refresher)...something in the range of $300 for each. At the end of the courses...she has to retake the test, and pass...or repeat the no-value course again.
I paused the guy and asked, so these are mostly worthless? Yeah, and just wasting more time.
My daughter has a lab in a major University on the left coast. This year a colleague of hers had a summer intern from an HBCU down south. He is about to graduate and struggles with even simple math. After a summer in the lab he STILL cannot be trusted to calculate dilutions to make solutions for experiments. He still does not know how to use basic equipment for pipetting liquids without help. He is working in an animal lab and his attention span is so bad that animals have escaped cages. My daughter had to help him with a presentation he had to give and after correcting him over and over he still makes the same mistakes. Now he is asking for recommendations to get into graduate school for engineering. Affirmative action in action.