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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 27 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Math, and I mean basic math: adding, subtracting, multiplication, division. Basic understanding of fractions, basic understanding of percentages.

I'm not amazing at math but I consider this basic and with relatively regular day to day application. I'm not saying people should be able to make these operations without a calculator on the fly, I certainly couldn't in many cases. But I would expect people to know what math you need to apply to, say, calculate a 20% discount. I would expect people to know if, say, two thirds is more or less than three quarters. But no. Nope

[–] Nomad 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm an engineer by training which includes a lot of higher math training. Also have been running my own company for years. But still learned this basic stuff way later. This is something that should taught in school.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

... you got an engineering degree not knowing basic percentages and fractions?

... isn't this taught in schools? I definitely learned it before age 12

[–] Nomad 1 points 4 months ago

Applications in daily things like taxes, rebates and the like. It is, but somehow it only sunk in late in life.

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