> Americans struggle with the most basic of math skills,” NCES Associate Commissioner Peggy Carr said in a statement. “We need to better equip Americans with th

> Americans struggle with the most basic of math skills,” NCES Associate Commissioner Peggy Carr said in a statement. “We need to better equip Americans with the numeracy skills that they need for success, starting in middle and high school.” I can resonate with this. After starting sken projects that were going to require more CS knowledge than I have, I found in a rabbit hole completely ignorant of most things. Even simple things like doing division by hand and multivariable equations? I had completely forgotten hownto do. I was never particularly fond of math in school. Not sure why tbh, whenever I would get stuck on something the teacher was unable to explain things in a way I couldnt understand. I dont think I was stupid, hell throughout middle and high school I started programming andn hacking stuff, often finding ways out of classes to go do that instead. But by the time I was in HS, I found myself ending up in pre-calculus and calculus classes (ended up picking thats over stays because colleges would prefer it for any engineering discipline). And do to a mix of teachers who would generally pass anyone + technology ready available for me to plug in the problem in. I was constantly digesting articles that claimed this stuff would never be of use to me, that traditional education was useless for programmers and that of could slap together CRUD apps would be hired for six figures easily. I ended up deciding I wasnt going to bother with college as it was useless (in retrospect theres a lot of mixed truth to all that and I really wish I had gone to school) And of course fast forward and I dont hardly remember simple algebra, and could flat out tell you nothing about trig, or calc. It sucks, but I dont have time to relearn all that now.