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College students are having a hard time with basic math? It’s due to the ‘pandemic’! Considering students would have completed 2nd thru 5th grades a decade before the ‘pandemic’….it’s reasonable to suggest there’s something else going on here. Ya’ think?
One also wonders if the lack of reading skills impacts their performance.