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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are interested in this subject, check out this book: https://www.amazon.com/Smartest-Kids-World-They-That/dp/145165443X

US students lag behind because, just as this thread demonstrates, we don't care. It is part of the culture.

It is sad. [/quote]

The US lags because the US doesn't push kids off of a college track. If you selectively test US kids the same way kids in China are selectively tested, then the US doesn't lag. MIT is still the best university in the world for math and they manage to fill their freshman class with almost 90% Americans every year. [/quote]

Yes MIT is a leading university and they fill their class with math capable students because they have not abandoned standardized testing.   Yes, there are enough Americans who can do advanced math to fill MIT’s class and that of several other STEM schools but many kids are just getting pushed along in math to everyone’s detriment.

Not everyone needs to do high level math, but clearly many colleges need to offer remedial math classes.  College is the new high school.

Every been at a store where the register is down.   A significant number of Americans can’t make change unless a machine tells them how to do it.  [/quote]

I'm hoping the cashier doesn't have a college degree. The point is that enough American kids do well enough in math to fill out math/engineering/finance/physics... departments. If anything, we are producing too many of these kids given the number of seats available in math heavy majors at universities [/quote]

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