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Are you smarter than a 5th grader? Probably not if you’re a University of California San Diego college student.
As I discuss in an upcoming FPM+ Article, college students are routinely taking remedial classes in basic literacy and mathematics. At the University of California San Diego, 1,000 incoming students needed to take remedial math courses. In a remedial class, 1 in 4 could not correctly answer the following math problem.
If you can answer this question, you’re uh overqualified for college.
How bad is it? The dismantling of standards at the high school level was followed by the dismantling of standards at the college level and the result is that no one knows anything.
One in eight UC San Diego freshmen have math skills that fall below high-school level, a 30-fold increase since 2020. One in 12 have math skills below middle-school levels. Yet the average high-school math GPA was an A- for students taking a middle-school remedial course. This suggests rampant grade inflation in high schools. Its effects were exacerbated by the UC Board of Regents move in May 2020 to stop requiring the SAT in the name of making admissions more equitable and improving “educational quality.”
Oh they did. By their standards. The freshmen may not be able to count without using their fingers, or more likely, ChatGPT, but I bet they can correctly identify
1. Systemic racism
2. Fat-shaming
3. Slut-shaming
4. Sexism
5. Genocide in Gaza
6. Islamophobia
And their classes in podcasting (not joking), toxic masculinity (not joking either) and social media branding (see above) have more than prepared them for their emerging careers as podcasters and social media influencers. Or running their accounts.
Declining student preparation appears widespread at the state’s universities: About half of UC campus math chairs say that the “number of first-year students that are unable to start in college-level precalculus”—which used to be a standard course for California’s top high school sophomores—doubled over the last five years. The other half of chairs said the number tripled.
But who’s counting anyway? Not UC San Diego students.
Why quibble about math? When in power, the enumerate do not need math to redistribute what others produce and own. They may not know what 100% means, but they know what all of it is.
To engineers everything looks like an engineering problem. That carries over to the field of social engineering to which many academics and politicians eventually find their way.
In 1960 American High School students, undergraduates, and graduates scored 100, 108 and 114 respectively on IQ tests. As of 2006 that had fallen to 93, 100 and 106 respectively. Bear in mind these are averaged out across all subjects from STEM to Mickey Mouse and denote the peak and not the lower edge of the Bell Curve, certainly the dumbest lower edge of the Bell Curve of the dumbest courses. Also take note, no figures have been released since 2006. It’s almost as they have something to hide!
And we’re racist for noticing.
LOL!
The damage has already been done. The public schools have been flooding America with uneducated. young adults for a long time. Not sure if a nation can recover from something like this. In the meantime, in China, for instance , they insist on excellence in school. Students learn Algebra as a concept starting in Kindergarten., are doing pre-calculus in 7th 8th grade to prep them for Calculus in High school. We are doomed….
Racism and reality often are synonyms.
Inability to think abstractly.
Slut shaming is a real thing? I like sluts and whores..
Speaking of easy…
I see we have five Nancy Boys here.. Real men like sluts and whores because they put out. and all the ones I know are good looking.
Maybe it’s just five sluts who also like to be shamed. (There’s a word for that.)
Looks like 3 to me, ‘course arithmetic was always my weakest subject.
9 + 6 is three? WTF?
7 + 2 = 3 + 6
😉
But it’s all good Jeff!
O.K, that makes sense. I have trouble figuring out this shit sometimes.
My girlfriend helps me out with that crap but she’s mad at me right now. I haven’t talked to her in two days. I’m so sad.
Playing dumb isn’t your strong suit
Thank you for inadvertently confirming the author’s point.
Good to know your girlfriend paid attention during math lessons in 1st grade.
Jeff. Did you see the equals sign or do you not know basic order of mathmatical functions and formulas?
In defense of Jeff, the box isn’t a generally recognized math symbol and may not be standard at all. This could be the fault of the graphic artist who created the image for the article. And as best as I can recall, no box symbol was ever part of the “New Math” of the sixties. Perhaps someone familiar with computer programming might recognize it as an instruction symbol in some computer command. (Then again, it may just be a box for reasons unexplained.)
He’s taking a piss as the English say
I think the box is there as a reminder, what to think outside of.
I don’t know shit from spit.
I didn’t get it either, but you sure made me laugh. I thought the answer was fifteen.
Jeff,
Now we all know that 9 women plus 6 men, equals three left for you.
Maybe you’re chasing a negative sign around the wrong way? We’ve all been there. Or maybe I missed a joke? I’m always the last to get a joke.
Best
I have at least nine.
Well, my arithmetic isn’t what it used to be. I’ll have to check over that calculation again.
Oh, I see. Those 6 men were all recent college graduates. They probably did their senior thesis as a group podcast on The Relative Wokeness of Katherine Hepburn in Pat and Mike. So 6=0. That must be it. I always hated those trick questions.
Any of those have an IQ above nine?
It’s kind of a trick question. Does the square box represent the answer of 7+2=9? Or, is the square box to put 3 in it so that 7+2=3+6? I assume it’s the later answer.
No, 6 is one less than 7 and 1 is one less than 2 so the right answer is 1
🤔…Ok… how about just remove the equal sign and replace it with ≠ and anything besides 3 is correct even colors.
Hope is wrong, try again.
No, Joe, we’re all wrong.
The correct answer is “I’m a racist for asking.”
😉
Joe, you wouldn’t say that if you cared at all about my feelings.
Reading some of these comments, I’m getting an image of Jethro Bodine’s “cipherin'” (1 and 1 is 2), and “gazintas” (4 gazinta 8 2 times). We really are in trouble here aren’t we, uncle Jed. Wow.
Sounds like Common Core math thinking to me
What kind of math is that?
Yes, it’s dumb. Just ask a straight forward question.
I tried filling the box with red, blue, yellow crayons. What’s the answer?. It can be filled in with so much. Is this a racist question???
-LOL
Oh, I am so sorry.
I just posted that all of us are wrong,
but you’ve got the right answer!
The question is racist because the box is white with a black outline:
Hence, it’s an Oreo!
I initially thought the straight lines used for the box were signaling some sort of cisgender supremacism. I think there is a PhD topic in Intersectionality Studies lurking here. Anyone care to write a grant proposal?
Furthermore, the right angles used were not only very reminiscent of ungroovy squares, but a second layer of latent racism since they suggest the idea that there is a right answer. I am ambivalent about the ambiguous use of a rectangle. On the one hand, being less boringly symmetric than a square, it is therefore groovier than a square, despite no actual further grooves (wild paradox, man), but on the other hand I still hate nontrivial (symmetry) groups. Moreover, etymologically, rect comes from the Latin for right, or straight, so that back we go to that cisgender supremacism. (Don’t go the path of the rectum connection, please.)
Also, the use of an equality sign rather than an equity sign is a violation of People Whose Lives Matter rights. At least it wasn’t an inequality sign. My gosh, if that had appeared in the question, the SPLC would have had to bring suit to shut down UCSD. (Although, come to think of it, that last prospect does have its upside.)
But I think most importantly there may also be an opportunity here for a new cult for those of us whose right frontal lobes and left frontal lobes see each side of the non-actually-existent equation independently. The equality sign is clearly a degrading fascistic symbol in the (left or right but not necessarily more than occasionally both) eyes of all of us Lobalists.
Power to Lobalism. Free Lobotomies for the lobally enslaved deplorables. Surgery will set you free.
(To hopefully forestall possible confusion.: Yes, all of the above was a bitter joke.)
Stop it you’re killing me
Shaming used to be a way of forcing universally-accepted values on people. All citizens in a country should hold the same values and traditions, like morals, ethics, patriotism, and respecting positions of authority. Diversity divides people and promotes hatred among groups; it is the worst concept our country has ever acquired–and of course it comes from Communists and other anti-American groups.
The future of the nation is at high risk.
And to make ALL of the stup!d black kids feel good about themselves they’ve engineered our education system down to the lowest common denominator. Now, over40 years later we are having to deal with uneducated radicals that have nothing better to do than to steal whatever they want instead of working for it. BUT THEN THEY ARE NOT EDUCATED ENOUGH TO EVEN HOLD A JOB THAT THEY MIGHT NEED MINIMUL INTELLECTUALY SKILLS.
What those supposed education intellectuals did not realize is that you cannot increase IQ by making education less demanding. The average Black IQ in America is only about 85 or less, where the average of America is only 100. Our military will not take in recruits who have an IQ of less than about 83 or so. In other words my friend YOU CANNOT MAKE A SILK PURSE OUT OF SOWS EAR, AS THE OLD SAYING GOES.
This is clearly evil. 7+2 or 72 = 66+6 or 666
I just finished “Unbalanced: Memoir of an Immigrant Math Teacher” by Yellow Heights. It is another indictment of our absurdly inefficient, government-dominated education system. When you compare the SAT/ACT scores of students who major in education to the subsequent high GPAs those students get, and then do the same for those in STEM majors, we understand grades are to woke educators what prices are to socialists: irrelevant.
I’ve been told that into today’s college environment, my high school diploma would be the equivalent of a bachelors degree in general education.
The modern bachelor’s degree is more like equivalent to your middle school level.
Some might think that it would be roughly equivalent to saying that your high school diploma would be equivalent to a master’s degree, but I’m pretty sure that they would be wrong. Actually the average master’s degrees may be equivalent to your elementary school credential. And that is all too much depressing equivalence.
If the above was unnecessarily confusing, maybe it would help to recall that, as Dennis Prager has pointed out, college makes you stupider. After that it gets Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD).
Math is based on absolute truth. Communism is based on absolute lies. Communist death democrats control the public school systems and the Universities and the truth is the deadly enemy of communism therefore only lies are taught in these schools. Islam by the way operates under the same dogma as Communism. Here’s an equation that should be taught in our schools – Communism + Islam = Evil. Until the democrat communists and islamist are purged completely from our schools this problem will never be resolved.
If you can’t do this IN YOUR HEAD, you’re not college material. Sorry.
You’re probably village idiot material. Dog catcher material maybe.
Or, you could run as the VP candidate on the Democrat ticket.
Dog catcher? No. You have to be smarter than a dog.
The NEA is just another group of Useful Idiots trying to make our youth into fellow useful idiots that why Johnny still cant read
The question is why anyone wants an unskilled, uneducated, unproductive next generation. Because the ruling class wants slaves , who will be depended on them for their wellbeing.. A slave population who can’t challenge the authority of the ruling class. Pre civil war southern plantations anyone?
3 sooooooooo very basic
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This is how Islam will take over America. All leftists in the Islamic-Marxist alliance, plus liberals, will convert to Islam. This is entirely the fault of those who opened Americas doors in 1965 and have wedged the door open since then along with those who’ve demoralized America since arriving in the 1880-1924 perio. Id include “reds” and red diaper babies, the Frankfurt school scum, etc. anachnoo, in other words.
After I turned 50 I moved from being a consulting engineer/physicist to being a college instructor. I also became a father for the first time at age 56, and again at 59, and a college trustee at age 58; so I’ve had an unusual look at what goes on in education especially math education from three sides.
Something that was puzzling until I did a bit of investigation was that students who’d taken two years worth of calculus in high school were arriving in college with dismal skills. When they took a math placement exam most of them would place into elementary algebra, a ninth-grade class. How could this be when they’d progressed, supposedly, four or five classes beyond this level?
The answer to this was that high school teachers were much more interested in teaching calculus than that boring old algebra and they coaxed and pushed students into more advanced math before they’d mastered more foundational materials. In fact, many of the high school math teachers weren’t very skilled at algebra themselves and had no business teaching calculus. There was so little supervision and assessment that no one recognized the disconnect and heaven forbid the public school provide any accountability.
Over a few years I learned the same story applied to teaching high school science, especially physics. Teachers poorly prepared in physics themselves were teaching students a hodge-podge of topics that were sort of fun but nowhere near what we expected these students to have mastered for entry into college engineering. Again, no supervision or assessment against expectations and no accountability
Public education is like mass production on an assembly line without any QA/QC department to identify and correct problems. And just like such a malfunctioning assembly line, it represents an enormous waste of time and money as valuable raw materials (students) are turned into products (graduates) no one wants to buy (employ).
In 2005 I was given an award by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and in my remarks I said that much of the service economy could stand to learn how precision manufacturing works and employ similar thinking. Nowhere is this more true than in the K-16 pipeline.
Congratulations on your award and accomplishments, Kevin.
I would add, however,
that before an improvement in standard operating procedures can be made to an organization
whoever does not like the outcome or results
must force whoever runs the organization
to take responsibility for the poor performance
and be replaced by someone willing to improve performance.
And the goals and objectives of the organization must align with whatever is defined as “improvement.”
Let’s put this another way:
I was an engineer for a state/government agency when a Demokkkrat governor took over. She installed a ‘community activist’ who was an attorney with minimal legal experience. But he punched all the right victim cards, and spoke often with liberal babble laced with Left-wing dog whistles.
Within weeks we were reorganized to achieve the desired results:
A completely dysfunctional organization in which Left-wing activists dedicated to imposing the Left’s agenda on the community were in charge.
Any entity that required permission to do anything a complex civilization requires … had better come with lawyers, technical experts, and lots of time and cash.
The outcomes and results were entirely predictable.
What’s sad is: If a Republican, or even just a Democrat (some innocent soul with no idea what’s going on), took back that agency,
he would likely have no idea how to undo the damage.
He would not even know what to look for, or how to test for ‘competent’ personnel.
Happy Thanksgiving, if you’re in the USA. Otherwise, have a great week.
It’s a common story of failure, isn’t it? Best to you,
Step one is to break the teachers’ unions and the teachers’ colleges. No good foundational system could survive otherwise.
“turned into products (graduates) no one wants to buy (employ)”
What if this fact is the whole point? These K-16 mal-educated products are indeed created to be employed — by government, NGOs, media, civil service, deep state, bureaucrats, foundations, community organizations, non-profits, etc. The purpose of these products’ “education” is about one type of learning only — learning how to obey. Learning how to become perfect ideological drones. This is not a randomly malfunctioning education system — this is a deliberate lackey class creation industry. This is the function of “school” in the brave new world.
University of California San Diego college students are probably at nearby nude beach, as well as drinking and smoking pot, playing video games instead of studying
John Kennedy Schlossberg is a perfect example of a Harvard graduate .
Lee Harvey Oswald identified as a Marxist.
Sirhan’Sirhan ‘s own writings revealed an allegiance to communist ideologies.
Kennedy’s grandson is so indoctrinated , he supports the very ideology that murdered his grandfather and great-uncle .
Frightening .
(7 + 2) = (X + 6) Add (7+2)
9 = (X + 6) Subtract 6 from both sides of the equation to isolate X
(9 – 6) = (X + 6 – 6)
3 = X
X = 3
2! x 3!=12 , 3! x 4! = 144
Modern “Education” – to repeat for the umpteenth time since when? – was designed by communists in the 50’s to destroy America.
The National Education Association – and it’s constant push for lower standards, an elimination of facts, the memorization of Big Lies,
and otherwise just brainwashing children into the Religion of Atheism in the Denomination of Communism
was a key element in the communist plan to convert America into just another 3rd world cesspool.
Many, many educators have proposed numerous valid complaints, solid evidence, and excellent proposals for reform
all without success.
Because the fundamental cornerstones for success are not permitted to enter the schools,
and, frankly, barely exist outside the classroom.
When the plan began, resistance (actual resistance to abusing children with evil indoctrination) was dismissed with the same condescending attitude of any elite looking down upon the subhumans. e.g. ‘Let them read comics.’
And that’s why I’m here at FPM – “whining.”
Because this Bravo Sierra anti-education was in FULL BORE mode in 1968 when I started 2nd grade.
No one believed me then because I was a child.
So, now, we can all see it.
Even the Normies know something is terribly wrong.
According to recent reports in social media – likely from ‘reliable’ sources – which are believable
… average IQ our highschool graduates have an IQ of 90. College is at 100+. Doctoral students are at just 105 or 108 depending on who to believe.
That’s not a disaster. That’s sabotage.
Hate to sound like an alarmist, but too many of us seem to think there will be some sort of rebound or retracement back to the mean
… when the world goes Mad Max.
They have not seen these people in private – in their offices, in their homes, where they work and congregate.
Leftists have, can, and will slaughter people. And they have, can, and will wipe out ecological systems if they have the power to do so.
Doubt me? Look into processing lithium just for example – and remember that’s to ‘save’ us.
C’mon kitty and nanc, this is just a comment section. Your wordy comments are way to long to keep my attention.. I was able to make it through the first couple of your sentences then…..blanked out. I’m not saying what you have to say is not important but maybe you could make your sentences rhyme or add some pictures? or something. Thanks
So go away, dipshit.
I like Nanc’s comments and I’m sure I’m not the only one who does.
The answer is the cube root of 27
1 in 12?
I expected the number to be much higher
One wonders at the demographic.
Of course, one suspects!!!