Students don't understand meaning of "equal" sign

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Submitted by bickerdyke on Thursday August 12, 2010 @11:01AM

bickerdyke writes "Science Daily reports that about 70% of middle grade students in the US don't understand what the "equal" sign in an equation stands for."
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This probably explains a lot... (Score:1)

by Even on Slashdot FOE (1870208) writes:

...about why the economy is the way it is.
Clearly... (Score:1)

by jpapon (1877296) writes:

"Clearly it's the assignment operator. But the left hand argument should really be a variable" Well, that's the response I would have hoped to get from the generation growing up with computers and the internet everywhere. Instead it seems they're responding with "dunno, lol!" I guess all the doomsayers were right... technology really does make us dumber.

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This probably explains a lot... (Score:1)

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