-> I saw one survey that was for a person hired as a manager trainee for
-> a fast food restaurant and one of the areas the employer stated they
-> were "extremely dissastified with" was the candidates ability to
-> add/subtract, do fractions and work with
-> percents!
I wouldn't be surprised if that came up fairly often. Students in todays
schools are allowed to get by with a fair amount of calculator use, and
today's calculators can do many of these operations like magic, without
the student understanding or learning a darn thing!
What I would want to counter with (if a business person lodged such a
complaint with me) was whether they had checked the students high school
transcripts. If the kid had all "As" in math and still couldn't do these
operations, then the guy has a valid complaint. But if the kid had poor
grades in math and this guy hired him anyhow (with or without checking
his transcripts), well, that wasn't too smart now, was it?
Sheila
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