Good article on how the manufacturing industry, hiring since 2010, has trouble finding people with the necessary math skills. An excerpt:
“It used to be if you worked fine with your hands, you could make it. You could have a job,” said Michael A. Lucas, director of the North Montco Technical Career Center, a vocational high school not far from the K’nex plant. “Now, if you cannot do a B average in math, you cannot even obtain that job, because the academic and technical skills must go hand-in-hand.”
It appears that the math skills of high school graduates has been deteriorating at the same time that math expertise is becoming more important.
Read the whole thing.