Calculator math gone wild. Specifically we’re talking Berkeley of all places. Brad concludes…
The best students are great, but the quantitative reasoning skills of even the average student at a good university are worse than those of a typical waiter/waitress 40 years ago.
Geez, wouldn’t it be nice if Erika Stutzman would do a math column in place of 1/4 of her obesity columns. Of course, most likely she isn’t qualified to write about math nor passionate about it. Unfortunately, perhaps most math teachers aren’t particularly qualified either.
