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Try standing in line at a grocery store and listening to people get upset because the amount is much higher than they thought it would be. You will hear stateme
by devmor 1y ago
Try standing in line at a grocery store and listening to people get upset because the amount is much higher than they thought it would be. You will hear statements like "But how is it $43? I didn't buy anything that costs more than $5"
People that failed to grasp arithmetic cannot reason about numbers to a useful degree.
- MangoToupe 1y ago> People that failed to grasp arithmetic cannot reason about numbers to a useful degree. I think you're extrapolating far too much from such a simple interaction, which doesn't imply anything about ability to reason about numbers, just their ability to compute addition. If you say "if a is larger than b, and b is larger than c, is a larger than c?", you're testing numerical reasoning ability.
- devmor 1y agoNot compute addition - understand that addition is a function of numbers conceptually. About 30% of US adults do not have the basic ability to conceptualize the relationship between whole numbers.