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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Imagine paying $85,000 a year for this:

The faculty letter says:

“Students entering calculus courses increasingly lack mastery of prerequisite algebraic and trigonometric concepts.”

“Many students who completed high school calculus are unable to perform symbolic manipulations expected for success in university-level calculus.”

“Faculty across departments report a significant deterioration in quantitative preparedness among incoming students.”

“Calculus has become a major barrier to persistence in STEM majors because students are arriving without the mathematical foundations these courses assume.”[/quote]
How are state exams not catching this? How are students taking calculus but not able to do 2x=8? I know in Texas you only need a 30% to be proficient on the state exams. Is something similar happening in California?[/quote]

1. That doesn’t necessarily mean 2x=8
2. They grew up using Desmos, which can give them the answer to any equation without knowing how to solve it. Some teachers use it in higher level classes so they never really learned the foundation and only know how to get the answer. 
3. Desmos is now on the SATs and ACTs.

I’m a HS math teacher and we are spit in my department.  Some of us won’t allow Desmos at all and only give paper tests, some still no calculator, to test their foundational knowledge. Others allow Desmos on everything and say it’s allowed on the SATs so why not.  Some students graduate HS and do not know how to solve an equation without it.  [/quote]
How recent is this? There was no desmos when my kid graduated high school just 3 years ago.[/quote]

PP is incorrect. My kid graduated this month and didn’t use desmos on the ACT. Some kids prefer paper and ACT offers paper (no desmos). [/quote]

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