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They're blaming the pandemic which caused lockdowns for a couple of years for college students struggling with fractions and exponents? This is math that is supposed to be learned before high school. I don't think the pandemic is to blame for this.
It's not. It has been a problem for years.
Yeah... I started college back in 2013 and had a roommate that didn't know order of operations...
I think we're failing trying to focus too much on quantity over quality. There were tricks I didn't learn until college that someone should've taught me years ago. Things my parents learned that stayed with them for decades nobody ever bothered to tell me, and occasionally either they or someone from their generation would just say something like "9 * something adds up to 9 (e.g.
9 * 5 = 45,4 + 5 = 9)", "move the decimal place and multiply by two to calculate the tip", "i before e except after c."But nope, didn't learn that, instead I "learned" 3 different ways to do the same thing for solving various algebra situations and at 28 remember none of them. I feel very sorry for the common core kids, I expect them to retain even less with common core's embrace of this approach. Teaching people multiple ways to do something is great, but ultimately the teacher is going to use one, and they're going to move too fast for you to translate "their way" into "your way" (at least that was my experience in high school math when I tried to do it a way different than what the teacher was teaching).