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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something is definitely wrong - Harvard introduced "remedial math" courses to address the lack of foundational algebra skills in their students due to what they say was the "loss of learning during Covid"

I think grade inflation is to blame.  [/quote]

I think acceleration too early is to blame. The remedial math is being given to kids who took post-calc in high school too. You can train a dog to do tricks, but that doesn't mean it understands why it is doing the tricks. Their brains are too undeveloped for the math they are doing in middle school. Some private high schools catch this with difficult math placement tests for freshman and often make "accelerated" kids repeat and learn better and slower in high school. They still get through calculus. But a lot of kids are plowing through math in public middle and high school, taking on line classes alone, taking a years worth of math in one summer, etc.,  and they arrive at college with impressive transcripts and shallow knowledge, often having completely skipped over relatively basic math skill sets.[/quote]

Agree and also stuff like APs starting in freshman year. They are not learning basics in HS. For example in my day we did 2 yrs of a science, first yr was honors and the 2nd was AP. So we actually had a foundation for college. No one taking an AP in freshman yr of HS is really grasping anything.[/quote]If they get a 5 on the exam, why wouldn't they have learned the same as someone who took it junior or senior year?[/quote]

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