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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I think this is why Americans are so bad at math and come up with things like 2.0. There is a general disinterest in anything that is difficult. Everything should be easy. Everyone should get an A or B. If you need to work hard in school then something must be wrong with the school. 
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I am the Computer Engineer that posted above and I could not agree with you more!  Seriously, someone could hold a gun to my head and say agree more, and I'd be like &quot;impossible, I can't&quot;.  I will disagree with one (minor) point, [b]many of the foreign students did not do as well because while they could do the math, they could not apply the concepts.[/b]  Some how under the old bad system we managed have the knowledge to be superior to every other country in the world with our designs and innovations.  The mantra of everyone in the world is better than us was common back then to, but I just don't think it is true.
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I'm a PP in IT, and I totally agree with the bolded. I see this a lot in the many developers I work with.   And this is because the old way of teaching math in a lot of the Asian countries were just rote, memorize the formula and plug in the numbers.  But even they have started to change how they teach math.  They now include more critical thinking in their math curriculum as well.[/quote]

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