Patrick Collison
@patrickc · Nov 12, 2025
UCSD report: "At our campus, the picture is truly troubling. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of freshmen whose math placement exam results indicate they do not meet middle school[!] standards grew nearly thirtyfold, despite almost all of these students
Patrick Collison@patrickc· Mar 23, 2025This week, a math professor at MIT told me that incoming students are, on average, noticeably worse at math than they used to be.
Harvard, of course, just added a remedial math class, Math MA5, "aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students".
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Yikes
02:50 PM · November 12, 2025 · 34.1K views
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