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A fifth of adults have forgotten how to do fractions or percentages
One in five adults (or 20%) has forgotten how to work out either fractions or percentages, and even fewer remember how to calculate the mean, the median or the mode, according to a study. It reveals a perturbing lack of recall among many adults who have forgotten not just the rules of mathematics, but many of the key principles of English and science they were taught at school. In maths, 35% of the 2,000 adults who took part in the...
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