Re: Not Just the US With Education Problems

On Jun 4, 12:15 pm, Thurisaz the Einherjer
<MAILTOsecret...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
alwaysaskingquestions:

"The UK remains one of the few advanced nations where it is socially
acceptable, fashionable even, to profess an inability to cope with maths,"
it says, despite a maths A-level putting on average an extra £10,000 a
year on a salary.

Well, some fields of advanced mathematics, judging from my own experience,
aren't that important to the average joe (though an engineer et cetera will
see things differently of course). I freely admit that I've forgotten quite
a bit of my own advanced math skills I once learned at school, for I simply
never needed them again in the now 20 years since I graduated.

But basic maths, of course, is another thing entirely. If you can't do
logarithmic maths in your head within seconds, chances are you aren't hurt
much (exception see above)

What are 'logarithmic maths that you do in your head'? And what
engineers use such skills?

Why is is so difficult for people to be explicit about what they mean
by 'advanced mathematics'?

-tg





, but you should be able to know what "%" means
and how you have to deal with it for example :)

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