Re: Despite high school algebra focus, more students need remedial college math

Beliavsky <beliavsky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> I bet that most of the people struggling with high school
> math in college never actually learned it in high school.

 well, that's pretty obvious. if they *had* learned it, they 
wouldn't be struggling with it.

> The article does not mention what scores were achieved on
> the math SAT by the people struggling with math in college.
> Those scores would explain the mystery.

 not really. the SATs are what is referred to as a "multiple 
guess" test. you have the question, & you have 4 possible 
answers (i think it's 4. might be 3. i took my SATs in 1971).
 it's NOT that hard to score well if you learn just enough to 
guess well. you don't have to actually *learn* the material.

lee
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