Had a strange story-like substance on the front page today:
How’s your geometry? Here’s a test: What equation represents the area of the shaded rectangle located inside this cube? Almost six out of 10 Texas high school students missed that question on the TAKS test this spring. Inside are the eight toughest questions on the toughest TAKS test. Can you outsmart an average 17-year-old?
I don’t find the fact that most people missed the math questions too disturbing. The geometry problem requires a little thought and most people don’t understand combinatorics.
What I do find shocking is that 28% of kids that took this test thought the US allied itself with Hitler.
Scary.
Well, that would be 28 percent of people who failed the test the first time around. And the social studies test is always the easiest, so these people must be pretty oblivious.
16 out of 17 for me. It’s comforting to know that I could at least graduate from high school again – 15 years later and if I grew up in Texas…