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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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[–] mashbooq@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

“It’s not just that they’re unprepared, they’re almost damaged,” said Brian Rider, Temple’s math chair. “I hate to use that term, but they’re so behind.”

It's as if there was a highly-infectious pandemic that's known to damage most organs of the body, including the brain

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[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I blame the way they teach math

[–] bobman@unilem.org 2 points 10 months ago

There's not a very good way to teach math without restructuring the whole system.

I bet a lot more people would be interested in their subjects if they could learn at their own pace and go to an expert for help when they get stuck. That way, everything they're learning is immediately relevant to them. It'd be harder for instructors, of course. But I don't think we should structure education around what's easiest for the teachers.

[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

sports and factories ain't need no math by god! USA! we got to the moon first everyone else gets our sloppy seconds MURICA! Jesus didn't heal with fractions

living in the us is like watching Rome burning albeit slowly

[–] Naura@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I had to student teach secondary mathematics in october of 2020.

My host teacher was very up-to-date on online learning platforms (like pear deck and desmos) so i got to teach while learning these programs and making lessons with someone very knowledgeable with this. We also had 30% IEP students but also had a special education teacher so that helped a lot as well.

But otherwise most of the teachers were unprepared to teach themselves.

If you used manipulatives which i deem necessary to visualize fractions you were out of luck :(

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