#numeracy — Public Fediverse posts
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Poor numeracy is a blind spot in the age of AI www.ft.com/content/813b76… #AI #numeracy #literacy #math
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Poor numeracy is a blind spot in the age of AI www.ft.com/content/813b76… #AI #numeracy #literacy #math
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Could you predict which children will be Neets? No – and it’s unfair to ask that of teachers | Daisy Christodoulou
By Daisy ChristodoulouThe idea of government adviser Alan Milburn sounds laudable. But it’s asking too much of a system already struggling to meet society’s demands
#Primaryschools #Schools #Teaching #UKnews #Youngpeople #Children #Literacy #Numeracy #Unemployment #Inequality #Education #TheGuardian #DaisyChristodoulou
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Could you predict which children will be Neets? No – and it’s unfair to ask that of teachers | Daisy Christodoulou
By Daisy ChristodoulouThe idea of government adviser Alan Milburn sounds laudable. But it’s asking too much of a system already struggling to meet society’s demands
#Primaryschools #Schools #Teaching #UKnews #Youngpeople #Children #Literacy #Numeracy #Unemployment #Inequality #Education #TheGuardian #DaisyChristodoulou
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Could you predict which children will be Neets? No – and it’s unfair to ask that of teachers | Daisy Christodoulou https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/11/alan-milburn-teachers-predict-children-neets-unfair #PrimarySchools #Schools #Teaching #UkNews #YoungPeople #Children #Literacy #Numeracy #Unemployment #Inequality #Education
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For the most part, I am a serious advocate for the US adopting SI units. I've traveled all over, lived abroad and dealing with meters and kilometers and so on was really not a problem.
However, I do like Fahrenheit for temperature -- Celsius makes scientific sense, but humans just don't deal with negative numbers well, and so many live in places where part of the year you have negative temperatures. With Fahrenheit, most of humanity could express every temperature they encounter with a positive 2-digit number.
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For the most part, I am a serious advocate for the US adopting SI units. I've traveled all over, lived abroad and dealing with meters and kilometers and so on was really not a problem.
However, I do like Fahrenheit for temperature -- Celsius makes scientific sense, but humans just don't deal with negative numbers well, and so many live in places where part of the year you have negative temperatures. With Fahrenheit, most of humanity could express every temperature they encounter with a positive 2-digit number.
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The Trading 212 AI can't work out percentages. I opened a Stocks & Shares ISA, it worked out some kind of target based on how much I planned to invest each month and how long I would leave the money in. I put in about £500, and now it says I'm 46% of the way to the target of £119,666, but it will take several years to make up the other 54%.
#AI #hallucination #maths #arithmetic #numeracy #technology #finance #Trading212
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The Trading 212 AI can't work out percentages. I opened a Stocks & Shares ISA, it worked out some kind of target based on how much I planned to invest each month and how long I would leave the money in. I put in about £500, and now it says I'm 46% of the way to the target of £119,666, but it will take several years to make up the other 54%.
#AI #hallucination #maths #arithmetic #numeracy #technology #finance #Trading212
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‘No child should be left behind’: New learning materials aim to address literacy, numeracy gaps among Filipino learners
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Link post:
"#Scotland’s #schools surging ahead of those in England in #literacy and #numeracy #attainment"
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#Media is converging towards a #singleform: a continuous #stream of #shortformvideo, akin to television. This shift is driven by the allure of endless content and the dominance of platforms like #YouTube and #TikTok, which prioritise #flow over individual #content. The trend has the potential to exacerbate #loneliness and contribute to a decline in #literacy and #numeracy. https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-television?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#Media is converging towards a #singleform: a continuous #stream of #shortformvideo, akin to television. This shift is driven by the allure of endless content and the dominance of platforms like #YouTube and #TikTok, which prioritise #flow over individual #content. The trend has the potential to exacerbate #loneliness and contribute to a decline in #literacy and #numeracy. https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-television?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#Media is converging towards a #singleform: a continuous #stream of #shortformvideo, akin to television. This shift is driven by the allure of endless content and the dominance of platforms like #YouTube and #TikTok, which prioritise #flow over individual #content. The trend has the potential to exacerbate #loneliness and contribute to a decline in #literacy and #numeracy. https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-television?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
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#Media is converging towards a #singleform: a continuous #stream of #shortformvideo, akin to television. This shift is driven by the allure of endless content and the dominance of platforms like #YouTube and #TikTok, which prioritise #flow over individual #content. The trend has the potential to exacerbate #loneliness and contribute to a decline in #literacy and #numeracy. https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-television?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
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Australia is marching headlong into the American trap. Private schools are well funded fortresses of privilege, producing the “winners,” while public schools are left to carry the load with fewer resources, higher needs, and falling results. It’s a system that dumbifies the general population while propping up a narrow elite. If we keep going down this path, we’ll soon need to import our top professionals (just like the USA) because we’ll be too stupid to grow our own.
Now comes the federal government’s grand solution: the Teaching and Learning Commission, a new mega-agency to merge four education bodies into one. It’s being sold as the fix for falling Year 12 completion rates, declining literacy and numeracy, and a public system on life support. Targets are ambitious, lift completions, raise NAPLAN results, cut the literacy/numeracy gap.
But will this actually solve the problem ? Or just centralise power, add bureaucracy, and give ministers more distance from the classroom? Unless inequality is tackled headon and public schools properly funded and supported, no shiny new commission will save us. We can’t keep outsourcing education to private schools and expecting public education to limp along.
Australia doesn’t need another bureaucratic restructure. We need equity, investment, and faith in teachers. Otherwise, we’ll just become a nation of imported smarts and local mediocrity.#education #australia #privateschools #publicschools #equity #inequality #teachers #literacy #numeracy #policy #boganNation #auspol
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Australia is marching headlong into the American trap. Private schools are well funded fortresses of privilege, producing the “winners,” while public schools are left to carry the load with fewer resources, higher needs, and falling results. It’s a system that dumbifies the general population while propping up a narrow elite. If we keep going down this path, we’ll soon need to import our top professionals (just like the USA) because we’ll be too stupid to grow our own.
Now comes the federal government’s grand solution: the Teaching and Learning Commission, a new mega-agency to merge four education bodies into one. It’s being sold as the fix for falling Year 12 completion rates, declining literacy and numeracy, and a public system on life support. Targets are ambitious, lift completions, raise NAPLAN results, cut the literacy/numeracy gap.
But will this actually solve the problem ? Or just centralise power, add bureaucracy, and give ministers more distance from the classroom? Unless inequality is tackled headon and public schools properly funded and supported, no shiny new commission will save us. We can’t keep outsourcing education to private schools and expecting public education to limp along.
Australia doesn’t need another bureaucratic restructure. We need equity, investment, and faith in teachers. Otherwise, we’ll just become a nation of imported smarts and local mediocrity.#education #australia #privateschools #publicschools #equity #inequality #teachers #literacy #numeracy #policy #boganNation #auspol
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According to the latest Survey of Adult Skills by OECD (2023), over the past decade average literacy and numeracy proficiency declined, especially among the least educated.
#Numeracy #Literacy #ProblemSolving #OECD #Statistics #Education #EU #Europe #USA #Germany #Japan #Sweden #Norway #UK #Denmark #France #Poland
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According to the latest Survey of Adult Skills by OECD (2023), over the past decade average literacy and numeracy proficiency declined, especially among the least educated.
#Numeracy #Literacy #ProblemSolving #OECD #Statistics #Education #EU #Europe #USA #Germany #Japan #Sweden #Norway #UK #Denmark #France #Poland
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A not so great observation for #experimentalEcon:
"Results indicate that misunderstanding is common: the proportion of participants who misunderstood ranged from 22 % (Dictator Game) to 70 % (#Trust Game) in the online samples and from 22 % (Dictator Game) to 53 % (Public Goods Game) in the lab sample. Incentivizing the comprehension questions had no significant impact on misunderstanding, but #numeracy was associated with lower misunderstanding. Misunderstanding also predicted increased prosocial behavior in several of the games. Our findings suggest that misunderstanding may be important in explaining prosocial behavior, making it more complicated to draw clear inferences about #socialPreferences from experimental data."
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107039
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A not so great observation for #experimentalEcon:
"Results indicate that misunderstanding is common: the proportion of participants who misunderstood ranged from 22 % (Dictator Game) to 70 % (#Trust Game) in the online samples and from 22 % (Dictator Game) to 53 % (Public Goods Game) in the lab sample. Incentivizing the comprehension questions had no significant impact on misunderstanding, but #numeracy was associated with lower misunderstanding. Misunderstanding also predicted increased prosocial behavior in several of the games. Our findings suggest that misunderstanding may be important in explaining prosocial behavior, making it more complicated to draw clear inferences about #socialPreferences from experimental data."
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107039
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What's a better predictor of med. students' accuracy in #diagnosis?
- #Motivation to become a researcher
- #Math abilityAmong 128 students of #medicine, #numeracy was *much* more predictive of scores on medical cases involving #probability.
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What's a better predictor of med. students' accuracy in #diagnosis?
- #Motivation to become a researcher
- #Math abilityAmong 128 students of #medicine, #numeracy was *much* more predictive of scores on medical cases involving #probability.
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"[E]very year since the 1980s, the Monitoring the Future study has been asking 18-year-olds whether they have difficulty thinking, concentrating or learning new things. The share of final year high school students who report difficulties was stable throughout the 1990s and 2000s, but began a rapid upward climb in the mid-2010s.
This inflection point is noteworthy not only for being similar to performance on tests of intelligence and reasoning but because it coincides with another broader development: our changing relationship with information, available constantly online.
Part of what we’re looking at here is likely to be a result of the ongoing transition away from text and towards visual media — the shift towards a “post-literate” society spent obsessively on our screens.
The decline of reading is certainly real — in 2022 the share of Americans who reported reading a book in the past year fell below half.
Particularly striking however is that we see this alongside decreasing performance in the application of numeracy and other forms of problem-solving in most countries.
In one particularly eye-opening statistic, the share of adults who are unable to “use mathematical reasoning when reviewing and evaluating the validity of statements” has climbed to 25 per cent on average in high-income countries, and 35 per cent in the US."
https://www.ft.com/content/a8016c64-63b7-458b-a371-e0e1c54a13fc
#Intelligence #Literacy #Numeracy #ProblemSolving #CriticalThinking #PostLiterateSociety
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"[E]very year since the 1980s, the Monitoring the Future study has been asking 18-year-olds whether they have difficulty thinking, concentrating or learning new things. The share of final year high school students who report difficulties was stable throughout the 1990s and 2000s, but began a rapid upward climb in the mid-2010s.
This inflection point is noteworthy not only for being similar to performance on tests of intelligence and reasoning but because it coincides with another broader development: our changing relationship with information, available constantly online.
Part of what we’re looking at here is likely to be a result of the ongoing transition away from text and towards visual media — the shift towards a “post-literate” society spent obsessively on our screens.
The decline of reading is certainly real — in 2022 the share of Americans who reported reading a book in the past year fell below half.
Particularly striking however is that we see this alongside decreasing performance in the application of numeracy and other forms of problem-solving in most countries.
In one particularly eye-opening statistic, the share of adults who are unable to “use mathematical reasoning when reviewing and evaluating the validity of statements” has climbed to 25 per cent on average in high-income countries, and 35 per cent in the US."
https://www.ft.com/content/a8016c64-63b7-458b-a371-e0e1c54a13fc
#Intelligence #Literacy #Numeracy #ProblemSolving #CriticalThinking #PostLiterateSociety
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Maciej Bukowski udostępnił dzisiaj: https://x.com/mbukows/status/1900478926868091378
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Maciej Bukowski udostępnił dzisiaj: https://x.com/mbukows/status/1900478926868091378
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#STEM students outperformed #socialScience students not only on a #numeracy test, but also a mathematical #reflection test (N = 245).
Curiously, students' #ratioBias was not predicted by #reflection after controlling for #numeracy.
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#STEM students outperformed #socialScience students not only on a #numeracy test, but also a mathematical #reflection test (N = 245).
Curiously, students' #ratioBias was not predicted by #reflection after controlling for #numeracy.
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"This month, the OECD released the results of a vast exercise: in-person assessments of the literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills of 160,000 adults aged 16-65 in 31 different countries and economies. Compared with the last set of assessments a decade earlier, the trends in literacy skills were striking. Proficiency improved significantly in only two countries (Finland and Denmark), remained stable in 14, and declined significantly in 11, with the biggest deterioration in Korea, Lithuania, New Zealand and Poland.
Among adults with tertiary-level education (such as university graduates), literacy proficiency fell in 13 countries and only increased in Finland, while nearly all countries and economies experienced declines in literacy proficiency among adults with below upper secondary education. Singapore and the US had the biggest inequalities in both literacy and numeracy.
“Thirty per cent of Americans read at a level that you would expect from a 10-year-old child,” Andreas Schleicher, director for education and skills at the OECD, told me — referring to the proportion of people in the US who scored level 1 or below in literacy. “It is actually hard to imagine — that every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading even simple things.”
https://www.ft.com/content/e2ddd496-4f07-4dc8-a47c-314354da8d46
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"This month, the OECD released the results of a vast exercise: in-person assessments of the literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills of 160,000 adults aged 16-65 in 31 different countries and economies. Compared with the last set of assessments a decade earlier, the trends in literacy skills were striking. Proficiency improved significantly in only two countries (Finland and Denmark), remained stable in 14, and declined significantly in 11, with the biggest deterioration in Korea, Lithuania, New Zealand and Poland.
Among adults with tertiary-level education (such as university graduates), literacy proficiency fell in 13 countries and only increased in Finland, while nearly all countries and economies experienced declines in literacy proficiency among adults with below upper secondary education. Singapore and the US had the biggest inequalities in both literacy and numeracy.
“Thirty per cent of Americans read at a level that you would expect from a 10-year-old child,” Andreas Schleicher, director for education and skills at the OECD, told me — referring to the proportion of people in the US who scored level 1 or below in literacy. “It is actually hard to imagine — that every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading even simple things.”
https://www.ft.com/content/e2ddd496-4f07-4dc8-a47c-314354da8d46
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Bad bar charts distort data — and pervade biology #statistics #numeracy #biology
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When I was a Classics major, I had a professor with absolutely no concept of how grading worked. Every week, he'd give us a quiz. The first week, there were ten questions, and I got eight right. So my mark was 80%. The next week, there were nine questions. I got all nine correct. My mark was 90%. Another time, there were eleven questions. I got ten right, so my mark was 100%.
I spoke to him many times explaining that his grading was messed up, but he never understood.
Math does not come easily to me, but here I was trying to teach him basic arithmetic. It didn't work. Everyone had to challenge their marks every week. #math #numeracy #grading
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When I was a Classics major, I had a professor with absolutely no concept of how grading worked. Every week, he'd give us a quiz. The first week, there were ten questions, and I got eight right. So my mark was 80%. The next week, there were nine questions. I got all nine correct. My mark was 90%. Another time, there were eleven questions. I got ten right, so my mark was 100%.
I spoke to him many times explaining that his grading was messed up, but he never understood.
Math does not come easily to me, but here I was trying to teach him basic arithmetic. It didn't work. Everyone had to challenge their marks every week. #math #numeracy #grading
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I don't even think these are bad lads or crooks, it just seems #SocialMedia #hustle culture has taken over, above basics of running a #SmallBusiness such as #CustomerService, communication and keeping reasonable stock levels (its also possible they genuinely lack the skills to add more detailed content to their sites as no ones taught them ( a lot of lads become disaffected with #education by their teens and struggle with basic #literacy and #numeracy )
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Why would you not map maths curricular to the practical use of mathematics ? https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/oct/19/rent-wage-slips-and-interest-rates-may-feature-in-new-aqa-maths-test-for-pupils
