On Leno, Obama Admits He Can't Do Math Above 7th Grade Level ... Yeah, We Know

Fox Nation ^ | October 25, 2012

[DPMD]

Haven’t seen him to much of anything above a 7th grade level.

[Vaduz]

None of the democrats know numbers it’s why they always make them up as they need them.

[AnAmericanMother]

I took the SAT in 70, 71 and 72, and my scores were not multiples of 10. Single digits were used, not sure why or how often.

[AnAmericanMother]

Several possibilities - they needed a geographic distribution, you were from a public high school (points given there), or you gave a killer interview.

I used to interview for my school. But I'm not sure they paid any attention to what I reported.

[Colinsky]

I'm surprised that Mr. Obama did not take advantage of the situation...he could have delivered a lecture about the Muslim mathematicians who developed al jabr a thousand years ago, and that's why our modern word is algebra.

[doorgunner69]

Yeah, like you know dude, math is HARD man!

Once again proves he is the Slacker Generation's choice............

[Third Person]

FWIW... I know four well rounded non-minority people who, in the 80’s, scored in the mid-1300’s and went to Ivy League schools.

[LongWayHome]

I did go to a public high school, but in the 1979-80 era when I took the old SAT the Ivy League schools often took students in the 1300+ range. By the late 1980s from what I remember it was difficult to get into an Ivy with anything under 1450. Tests and SAT scores became all the rage as the 80s moved along.

[AnAmericanMother]

I graduated high school in '73, and then stopped paying attention until my daughter started applying in 2005. My only other knowledge comes from living next door to a lady who worked for ETS. :-)

Part of the difference in our experience may be because not only is a public school an application advantage, a well-known prep school can be a positive DISadvantage.

It's like this: one of the reasons that public school students are given more credit for lower SAT scores is that the public schools rarely have the extensive college app system that you find in a good prep school (e.g. SAT prep and tutors, large applications office w/ advisers, organized recommendation letters, mock interviews, etc.) There's also less "teaching to the test" and more variation in the quality of the instruction across the board.

So if I went to a prep school and had all of that help and STILL didn't do better than 1400, the admissions department at the college is probably going to look at me funny.

At least that's an explanation that covers all the data!

[Bob]

It’s all the nation’s fault. If we had enough teachers, he would have been a math genius.

We're just not spending enough on education. If we'd just spend more, the schools will surely improve. (Yeah, right!)

[Lonely Bull]

When you pull his string, he says “Math is hard”

Let's go spending!