Teenagers' mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.

Teenagers’ mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.

    • athos77@kbin.social
      9·
      7 months ago

      As for reading, I really believe you won’t make it far without good reading skills.

      I’m just going to point out the easiest way to help someone develop better reading skills even when they don’t want to work at it: always leave the subtitles on on the television. Always. There’s studies showing that reading speed and comprehension increase when subtitles are routinely left on.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
      92·
      7 months ago

      Yeah we’re fucked, meanwhile in China they’re doing stoichiometry in third grade. I felt I would never use math too and then one day in law school the professor asked the class to do a quick calculation and called on a student who said “I’m not a math person, that’s why I’m here.” And the professor said something like “all law practice involves math and you could get sued or disbarred for getting it wrong, so you better become a math person while you’re here.” I’ve found it to be true, calculating damages, disbursing funds, accounting, sometines even physics questions, in the context of personal injury/medicine or products liability, even occupational health.