Re:'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
by HideousKojima on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:57AM
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Being able to take an arbitrary word problem and turn it into an algebraic equation (or series of equations) and be able to solve it. That a huge percentage of kids graduate high school being unable to do that means several people (mostly parents but likely the school system too) failed them.
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that hat is quite a bit higher than the basic algebra to just solve given equations. that's why I was asking. I think there are vastly different views on what's "basic".
wrt who has failed on them iirc countries like Finland figured how to largely lift the dependency from home, family, parents.