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  2. My grammer and, spell ing isint too bad. So i can agre with u.

  3. Which makes the current wave of”lack of literacy” and reading comprehension quite a bit more scary

  4. Considering how many stereotypes were made against math, I’m surprised kids here even go as high as 34%. I expected it to be closer to 12%

    That makes sense why entry level computer science is oversaturated though lmao

  6. Americans are better at languages than at maths?

    Barely any one of them knows a different language.

    Most of them are technically illiterate.

    How fucking bad are they at maths?

  7. As someone that went to school in Asia and is currently watching my son going through elementary school. I can totally see that. Asian school focus a lot more on math but American school focus a lot more on reading comprehension at the same grade level .

  8. I got a 34 in both science and math on the ACT and a 18 in English. English is my NATIVE language!! I think you get an 18 for putting your name on the test.

  9. Just my observation not American but in any other English speaking country. I noticed lots of kids just did not get some concepts in math and where terrible language arts, but at least it wasn’t a I understand next to nothing scenario. I’m guessing you have these r people decent at math, people who may not nessarily where good in math, but can read and write enough to bs to a pass, and a mix of the smartest and most hopeless. Basically people reporting none math are not nessarily good at la.

  10. It’s cuz it’s easier. I’m an engineer and I was always better at language arts. Still am.

  11. I would have put the “equally good at both” section in the middle.

  12. The way both are taught in US schools suck. But Math has to be one of the worst subjects. Lots of states have a set curriculum. Which in some states has changed multiple times down to the way to solve a problem, and students are pressured to do it the way they are taught, no other way. This is a problem when parents can solve it in a different way that they feel is easier, because that’s the way they learned.

  14. It depends. What is “better”? Higher SAT score ? Class level ?

  15. When it comes to note-taking, it’s a a lot more convenient to type stuff on a keyboard than to scribble whatever unholy runes mathmaticians will come up with.

    Only when I started learning programming (where a summation is expressed as more easily-typed for loop) did I start really understanding where math becomes useful.

  16. That’s absolute BS because most Americans can’t speak anything other than English. And even that, they can barely speak/write it properly.

  17. Is language arts the new way of saying English? What was wrong with calling it English? Foreign language class was completely different.

  18. English is more subjective where a teacher can push a grade for a student who is trying and correcting their work. With Math, some kids just ain’t got it and it’s a shitty feeling.

  19. The difference between Math and Language Arts is that when you make a math mistake, you *know it.* You usually don’t need a teacher to tell you you’re stuck, your method is wrong, or your numbers don’t add up. It’s harder to be self-aware of when your sentence structure, reading comprehension, and grammar are bad.

  21. Brit here. What are ‘language arts’? Is that just a way of saying foreign languages?

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