2012-08-29

Don't punt; take skills into the end zone

In 2011, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (otherwise known as ``The Nation’s Report Card’’) asked fourth graders to calculate the following:






The results were 83%, 64% and 52% correct, respectively.  Why was performance on the last task, arguably the easiest of the three, the worst?  Answer: probably because it was the only one in which calculators were not allowed.