Lady Butterfly to [Moved to Piefed] Ask@lemm.eeEnglish • 5 months agoWhat's a basic skill your shocked more adults don't know?message-square140fedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down18
arrow-up169arrow-down1message-squareWhat's a basic skill your shocked more adults don't know?Lady Butterfly to [Moved to Piefed] Ask@lemm.eeEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square140fedilink
minus-squarenomadlinkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoI’m an engineer by training which includes a lot of higher math training. Also have been running my own company for years. But still learned this basic stuff way later. This is something that should taught in school.
minus-square@Mothra@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months ago… you got an engineering degree not knowing basic percentages and fractions? … isn’t this taught in schools? I definitely learned it before age 12
minus-squarenomadlinkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoApplications in daily things like taxes, rebates and the like. It is, but somehow it only sunk in late in life.
I’m an engineer by training which includes a lot of higher math training. Also have been running my own company for years. But still learned this basic stuff way later. This is something that should taught in school.
… you got an engineering degree not knowing basic percentages and fractions?
… isn’t this taught in schools? I definitely learned it before age 12
Applications in daily things like taxes, rebates and the like. It is, but somehow it only sunk in late in life.