"I don't want to ruin my GPA," he said. "High school standards were really low."
Another winner aspiring to earn a degree in telemarketing.
On the brighter side, I bet they have an excellent appreciation for diversity, and can discuss the finer points of gay sex without embarrasment.
Yes, they can.
And those skills are in great demand at GM, Chrysler, Bank of America, AIG, and other government-owned businesses.
It’s all by design. Hence, the idiots who vote for the likes of an Obama....
Huh, ok, well not everyone should go to college....
Basic algebra involving fractions and decimals stumped a group of City University of New York freshmen - suggesting city schools aren't preparing them...
WHAT? Fractions and decimals? That's not college math, that's third grade math. Second grade for homeschoolers.
“These results are shocking”
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Only to those who haven’t been paying attention to the ascension of the non-judgmental, politically-correct mindset which is destoying the very foundation of our society.
I was watching a German documentary on employers testing German 17-year olds for apprentice positions. They had ten simple math problems (what’s three-quarters of an hour for example). And out of ten German kids who took the simple quiz...only two got seven or more right.
I think math teachers in general...are failing to get across math skills....period. Kids are unable to grasp how a simple formula can be used in a business or job situation. They are simply memorizing enough math formulas to pass a test, and nothing else.
I think the better skill here....around the eighth grade...is two entire years of business math.
And these are the ones that went on to college, I just can’t imagine how well educated the ones are that didn’t go on to college.
90% of 200= A bunch of democrat voters.
Don’t need no stinkin’ algeebra (hee, hee -— ‘bra’). All they need to know is how to vote........Democrat.....screw NYC
When I was home schooled I was doing solid geometry in the equivalent of 11th. grade in public schools ... math was my best followed by physics and history ....
I’d bet 100% would fail a history test also. They are just pushing them through to get the numbers up.
Ha! Give the same test to the high school math teachers and see what you get.
They're actually taught this crap in some public schools. At least in California, where I am.
It's pitiful.
“Our Diversity Is Our Strength!”
This kind of nonsense is what passes for "education" these days because stupidity and incompetence don't have any such consequences.
There was a time between the 1930’s and 1960’s when a CUNY degree was worth its weight in gold but in those days a large part of the students were Jewish along with many recent European immigrants-today having a degree from one of the CUNY colleges is a joke in this city.
if they ever saw a Slide Rule, they'd prolly think it was a Back Scratcher.
I personally knew students who graduated from high school who were unable to do even simple math such as long division. They had similar deficiencies in reading and writing. By taking the community college remedial courses, I was **amazed** that in two years the community college could teach them the skills they needed for success in college. The community college did this **routinely**! It was **not** an exceptional event!
So?...Why is it that the community college could teach these kids just 12 weeks after **graduating** from high school when just 12 weeks earlier their high school teachers couldn't??? Huh?
Nothing really changed in the lives of these kids. They were the same kids, with the same motivation and will to learn. Most had full and part-time jobs. They came from the same crappy dysfunctional families,.. but... 12 weeks after **graduating** from high school the community college is suddenly able to teach them.
Conclusion: Our government K-12 school suck big time. They use ineffectual teaching methods, and **refuse** to adopt methods that work ( such as the community college's approach)!
By the way, my homeschoolers finished all college general courses and Calculus III by the age of 15. The two younger earned B.S. degrees in math by age 18. The older of these two earned a masters in math by age 20.
I can't believe that 40% of these people couldn't do this conversion. What morons.