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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the person who posted that they don’t think you can master math just by working hard — how far did you get in math in college?

I was an aerospace engineer at a big state school and there were so many of my classmates that were bad at math.  Like very very bad at math.  These are enlisted kids that were coming back to school under the gi bill, kids that didn’t even go to college the first round.  Or kids that were coming in from community college.  They still eeked out passing grades past calculus (multi variable calculus, diff eq, linear algebra, etc).  They had to go get extra help, but it was set up that if you did the homework (and studied the homework), you would pass.  There’s nothing that can’t be overcome with hard work.  Will you get an a, probably not.  Will it be more work for you? Sure, but if you’re up for the challenge why not.

I wonder if you would say the same thing about writing— are there kids that shouldn’t take English in college because they didn’t score above a 120 as a second grader on the verbal section of the cogat?  That’s ridiculous![/quote]
I have a STEM degree and generally agree.  I'll also note that we're not talking about any student, but students who have top 10% math test scores in APS 5th grade.  That cuts out the students with significant LDs or other serious math struggles.  These are students who've already shown they are pretty good at math by getting top math scores.[/quote]

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