Masters degree in mechanical engineering here. You'd think I'd have no trouble helping my kids with their homework,right? Well, it seems like every 20 years they change the terminology. What I recall as quotient, numerator and denominator are dividend, divisor and someone else. When the problem says to identify the smargleflargle, I have no idea what's going on, and I took an entire course in complex math (I.e., used the square root of negative one). Set me up with a word problem and I can figure it out, but maybe not the exact way that's being taught. But throw in some terminology that doesn't define the problem in vocabulary that means anything to me, and I need to,read the whole fricken' chapter to learn the new words. On a test, I'd be lost.
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