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I tutored math in my college’s math lab as a side job for the first two years of school. By far, the most mathematically illiterate students I dealt with were the education majors. The school would basically make up some phoney-baloney math class to ensure that they could pass it and call it something like “college algebra for educators”. What they were being taught (notice I didn’t say “what they learned”), basically amounted to 7th grade pre-algebra, or something along those lines. Most of them had trouble even with that.

Oh, and did I mention that at the time I was going to school in the “enlightened” northeast?