College students are still struggling with basic math. Professors blame the pandemic
apnews.com
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.
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you're missing the forest due to the single example being given; kind of like their coworker missing the point about rounding. the lack of the fundamental understanding of mathematics is leading to this person making a mistake repeatedly and their insistence that they followed the rules (which they don't actually understand don't apply here) leads to confidently incorrect answers. these types of behaviors will show up repeatedly in many contexts.
Lol. I'm tired of explaining things to ya'll.
Keep living in your own, neurodivergent bubble. You were going to anyways.
its amusing how you can't realize you're demonstrating the same behavior as the coworker.
It's amazing how you don't understand survivor bias, lol.