• rustydomino@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I have this theory that Americans suck at math because they insist on sticking with the imperial measurement system and so nothing makes mathematical sense - Americans intuitively just think in every day units qualitatively. Whereas the rest of the world uses metric, so base 10 math just comes naturally.

    Source: I am a US STEM professor. Our students suck at math.