Brad Delong “Is the square root of 12 bigger or less than 4?”

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.

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