Sentences with phrase «poor math skills»

There is a cult of value investors with poor math skills that are always talking about buying long term quality companies and its nice to read a post that set the record straight.

He argues that many kids have poor math skills because they are discouraged from developing an intuitive sense of number.

According to the researchers, the same people who associated women with poor math skills did not associate men with boasting.

I can probably use my very poor math skills and figure it out OR probably just use your method!!!

Chalk that miscalculation up to historically poor math skills and the fact that I'm now operating mostly on caffeine and adrenaline — and virtually no sleep.

Poor math skills exacerbate inequities, shut people out of jobs and make it hard for voters to understand complex issues such as the cost of health care and the size of the national debt.

And thankfully, my poor math skills worked in my favor when I tripled instead of doubled the batch.

«Most of the kids coming out of high school have relatively low problem - solving skills; they have poor math skills, poor reading skills, and poor communication skills,» said Mr. Whitley, vice president of training and development for Tyson Foods Inc..

The cause of this high failure rate was thought to lie largely with the poor math skills with which students entered high school.

The mortgage crisis may stem, in part, from the poor math skills of borrowers, but far more blame would appear to lie in the inability of individuals to recognize or care that the mathematical wins that were making them rich would eventually make everyone poor.

Math: Children with strong language or reading skills may have poor math skills, or vice versa.

In the case of junk bonds, a combination of salesmanship, bad incentives, poor math skills, and a misused academic paper drove the junk bond boom.