On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Henry Baker wrote:
"By the end of Grade 3, students should be proficient with the ambition and distraction of whole numbers."
"By the end of Grade 5, students should be proficient with uglification and derision of whole numbers."
"By the end of Grade 7, students should be 7/3's better at fractions than at the end of Grade 3, and 17% better at percentages than at the end of Grade 6."
Continuing on, then, At Grade 9, at least 60% of students should score above the mean in sadistics. At Grade 11, students' rate of improvement in deferential calculus should reach an inflection point and continue to approach the global maximum (which can be expected to be reached and continue downward after reaching grad school). At Grade 12, the sum of students passing AP exams in infantile calculus should reach 37% (plus a constant) In the sophomore year of college, a sufficiency of students should have proficiencies in the various dimensions of mathematics that sufficiently many of their proficiency vectors lie within the prerequisite subspaces for mythematically-oriented majors. -- Two added to one -- if that could but be done", It said, "with one's fingers and thumbs!" Recollecting with tears how, in earlier years, It had taken no pains with its sums.