[Junior]

"All participants, even those aged 6, performed well above the chance level of 16.6 percent," they found. The average score was nearly 67 percent correct -- identical to the score for U.S. children.

So, primitive hunter-gatherers who have never been inside a classroom score as high on geometry as American children who are being "educated" at $10,000 per head per year.

[Pharmboy]

Great point...don't tell the teacher's union.

[razoroccam]

"So, primitive hunter-gatherers who have never been inside a classroom score as high on geometry as American children who are being "educated" at $10,000 per head per year."

But US students educated at 10,000/year can read and write whereas the "primitive" hunters cannot - er, well, never mind.

[grania]

So, primitive hunter-gatherers who have never been inside a classroom score as high on geometry as American children who are being "educated" at $10,000 per head per year.

High School Geometry is easily mastered by students if the basis of real-world concepts is in place.

Many students need to re-visit childhood activities ... drawing maps, writing directions, designing something to build or arrange, basic play and games, etc.

Computer activities and xeroxed work sheets can work for lots of necessary pre-requisites to Geometry success, but the hands-on aspects early man wired our brains with created the need for hands-on real-world type experiences to fully develop them.

So, if you know a child who can't do or learn Geometry, bring him or her out to play!

[RobbyS]

That's because their instruction never goes much beyond this intuitive level. Many educators--many math teachers--do not know that Euclidiean geometry is an application of logic, that it is the only opportunity for the school to teach formal logic to ordinary students.

[Ichneumon]

["All participants, even those aged 6, performed well above the chance level of 16.6 percent," they found. The average score was nearly 67 percent correct -- identical to the score for U.S. children.]

So, primitive hunter-gatherers who have never been inside a classroom score as high on geometry as American children who are being "educated" at $10,000 per head per year.

To be fair, the comparison was for 6-year-olds. Not many 6-year-olds are getting any kind of "education" beyond how to sit at their desks, color within the lines, and playing well with others. The "$10,000 per head" education comes when they get older.

Now let's compare the abilities of the US students versus the hunter-gathers on, say, trigonometry when they're 18.

[Ken H]

So, primitive hunter-gatherers who have never been inside a classroom score as high on geometry as American children who are being "educated" at $10,000 per head per year.

The $10,000 figure is because someone has to cosine for those under 18.

[TheLion]

Our public schools are not teaching our children....they are indoctrinating them.