Australia:
‘ONLY one in five Year 9 (13-14 yr old) students can figure out the area of a floor surface even with a calculator.’
Coupled with the fact that huge numbers of students are functionally illiterate, one wonders what their teachers are doing. Other than indoctrinating them with leftist and green and multicultural garbage, that is.
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Sorry Carol. For some reason your three comments ended up in the spam bin.
They’d know all about the evil carbon dioxide, the wonderful gay people and all that though. The really important things in life.
Yeah, exactly, Mathew.
Aren’t the schools teaching that math is racist and numbers but a social construct?
That would come as no surprise, TPH.
Arithmetic as we knew it may as well be a foreign language to kids these days, and having said that English is now a foreign language to many of them, now that they converse more or less as follows:
C U l8r u lk gd 2dy.LOL*.
I am not a convert to this superior technological communications.
* See you later,you look good today. Laugh out loudly = Shit!
I admit to getting my tense wrong there ought be no “s” on communications. OK, back to school for me, I hope to get caned.
By a good-looking teacher?
You read me perfectly!