Goes back much further; back to when “new math” was rolled out in the early 70s.
I was put in “advanced” new math in early 1960’. So abstract for a young dude ..destroyed any interest I might have had .took me till college to get a grip on it
Math scores down,, but all scores are down...just ask AI for the answer...stop watching TV and movies, and the bad stuff on the net for starters...
Exactly. It has been a precipitous decline for decades now. Complete ignorance and incompetence at least is the bottom that can’t go lower.
“Goes back much further; back to when “new math” was rolled out in the early 70s.”
Goes back to the 60’s.
“ Goes back much further; back to when “new math” was rolled out in the early 70s.”
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Because “YOU GET MORE OF WHAT YOU SUBSIDIZE” the average IQ of Americans is going down as the ‘LOWER IQ’ERS’ outbreed those with higher IQs. Migration of millions with lower IQs hasn’t helped.
So average Math scores are going down along with average IQ scores. Of course low expectations and minimal demands from the education conglomerate hasn’t helped.
Definitely new math. Every sane teacher that I know said 10 or 20 years ago that new math was going to cause problems. Now the evidence is piling up.
In the late 1970s, women became the majority of public high school teachers. in the 2020s, women make up almost 60% of the public high school teachers.
“… Goes back much further; back to when “new math” was rolled out in the early 70s...”
BINGO! The ‘new’ math left me bewildered.