US 'in denial' over poor maths standards (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Sean Coughlan
BBC News education correspondent

The maths skills of teenagers in parts of the deep south of the United States are worse than in countries such as Turkey and barely above South American countries such as Chile and Mexico.

An international study of maths ability in the US shows how individual states would have performed if they were ranked against other countries, using the OECD's Pisa results as a benchmark.

The study also shows that privileged youngsters in the US, with highly-educated parents, are lagging behind similar youngsters in other developed countries.

This analysis, from academics at Harvard and Stanford in the US and Munich University in Germany, punctures the idea that middle-class US pupils are high achievers.

Southern states Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana are among the weakest performers, with results similar to developing countries such as Kazakhstan and Thailand.
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27442541

[Half-Century Man]

1. How could we be bad at mathematics, we have Common Core....

..it just doesn't add up.

[brer cat]

2. That's the problem....

you were supposed to multiply and then divide by Pi.