Math Skills Show Little Growth

American Voices

Math Skills Show Little Growth

October 21, 2009 | ISSUE 45•43

Testing of American fourth- and eighth-graders shows that only four out of 10 are proficient in mathematics, a figure that has not improved since 2007. What do you think?

Oh, no. All of our high-paying jobs differentiating between parallelograms and rhombuses are sure to go to the Chinese."

Ann Gaddis
Fan-Blade Aligner
Well, duh. Everyone knows history is where it's at."

Patrick Fanning
Galvanizer
Oh hell, when is the real world ever going to have any use for today’s American kids anyway?"

Steve Weid
Systems Analyst

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