Colleges across the country are grappling with the same problem as academic setbacks from the pandemic follow students to campus. At many universities, engineering and biology majors are struggling to grasp fractions and exponents. More students are being placed into pre-college math, starting a semester or more behind for their majors, even if they get credit for the lower-level classes.
Colleges largely blame the disruptions of the pandemic, which had an outsize impact on math. Reading scores on the national test known as NAEP plummeted, but math scores fell further, by margins not seen in decades of testing. Other studies find that recovery has been slow.
Doing accurate math in embedded systems is very important.
Sure but, what if you’re not working in embedded systems?
That’s what these people fail to grasp. Just because higher level math is relevant to them, therefore it should be relevant to everyone else.
Lol. I’m glad I rose above the ‘math is super important’ rhetoric and learned to think for myself. It’s a shame most of you didn’t.