Mathematics, reading skills in unprecedented decline in teenagers - eviltoast

Teenagers’ mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.

  • interceder270@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I don’t really consider doing arithmetic to be important for lawyers.

    If you can use a calculator, all you need to do is understand the very simple concepts. This applies to the vast majority of people who use math in their everyday lives.