Public School Education System Thread

[Okeefenokee]

Do you think a person with a college degree should be able to perform middle school and high school level math?

[Fife]

8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895
http://grandfather-economic-report.com/1895-test.htm

[Speaker to Animals]

That's just kindergarten stuff.

For digital signal processing code used in something like a base radio for a wireless network, you deal with stuff like Fourier series:




For my machine learning code I have been writing the backpropagation library was based on some differential equations and algebra:




What you posted pretty much everybody should be able to do who has a high school diploma. It's not anywhere near engineering-level mathematics.

The stuff I encountered in graduate school was brutal compared to this stuff I posted here. This is just run of the mill mathematics.

Engineering. Not something you'd encounter with a high school degree.

Exactly. What you posted was high school algebra. Everybody should be able to do it.

[Okeefenokee]

8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895
http://grandfather-economic-report.com/1895-test.htm

2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?

[Fife]

[Speaker to Animals]

Get gassed.

[Fife]

[Okeefenokee]

A few e-mails from readers >

'I know the test reflects what was in the textbooks of that era, and that it is similar to the test my mother had to take in the 1920s in Nebraska.'

Another > 'Reading that eighth grade exam surely humbled me. It gave me a much greater appreciation for my father whom I considered a highly intelligent man - a Midwesterner, who was able to make a very good living, including putting me and my three siblings through college - with only an 8th-grade "education."

And another > 'I am a retired college professor (after 41 years) of earth and environmental sciences having taught at two universities and one community college in the United States of America. I simply cannot sit still over the terrible decline in the pre-college preparation of my students and the administrative mindset that the precious self-esteem's of the students merit more consideration than the degree of learning which takes place.'

[Kazmyr]

[Fife]

A few e-mails from readers >

'I know the test reflects what was in the textbooks of that era, and that it is similar to the test my mother had to take in the 1920s in Nebraska.'

Another > 'Reading that eighth grade exam surely humbled me. It gave me a much greater appreciation for my father whom I considered a highly intelligent man - a Midwesterner, who was able to make a very good living, including putting me and my three siblings through college - with only an 8th-grade "education."

And another > 'I am a retired college professor (after 41 years) of earth and environmental sciences having taught at two universities and one community college in the United States of America. I simply cannot sit still over the terrible decline in the pre-college preparation of my students and the administrative mindset that the precious self-esteem's of the students merit more consideration than the degree of learning which takes place.'

THANKS KARL