Mathematics, reading skills in unprecedented decline in teenagers

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Mathematics, reading skills in unprecedented decline in teenagers
reuters.com

Teenagers' mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.

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Reading is important.

Math is not.

That's just not true. Math helps build the basics of mathematical thinking which is useful throughout your whole life.

Basics of mathematical thinking? You mean problem solving?

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