• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    In the rest of the world: yes.

    In the US: I highly doubt it.

    This is just basic math, if you can’t figure this out you’re probably 8 years old.

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        18 days ago

        Yeah, but even worse, you’re just talking about schools. You forgot about all the kids being home schooled, taught the earth is flat and an imaginary friend created everything in 7 days. Taught by parents who lack proper education themselves.

        Also, it’s kinda obvious the rules of math aren’t different in the US. Even when they use an idiotic measuring system. If people don’t know how to use math properly, the issue clearly is the education and not math itself.

        • Yeah, but even worse, you’re just talking about schools

          I’m talking about anyone at all in the U.S. is allowed to teach Maths without any Maths qualifications

          You forgot about all the kids being home schooled

          That happens in other countries too, and yet it’s the U.S. which has been sliding down the world rankings for more than a decade, the country that doesn’t require Maths teachers to have Maths qualifications.

          Also, it’s kinda obvious the rules of math aren’t different in the US

          That’s right, as proven by U.S. Maths textbooks

          If people don’t know how to use math properly, the issue clearly is the education and not math itself

          Partly right. there’s also people who just outright forgot the rules.

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        In all fairness, I grew up in a small town in a very red state, but the education system there proved better than larger, more progressive parts of the state. The education I received was likely an outlier and not representative of the norm, but it did teach me that educators in an area do not necessarily mirror the rest of the population.

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        1 month ago

        Fix? It’s a duster fire. It may be hard to deal with, but a total collapse and completely rebuilding it feels like the better solution to the problem (so not based on a constitution made in completely different times with muskets and without internet etc).

        So you were taught math. What languages did you learn besides English? What history did you learn, just US or also of other countries and the rest of the world? And talking about the rest of the world, how much did you learn about that? Countries, cultures, cities, geographic features like mountains, seas, etc. and how they were formed? What religions were taught about? What about history of music and art?