Yesterday, I read a piece....concerning Detroit. Some group did a study and found that roughly 50-percent of the city's residents....are functionally illiterate.
Meaning? Functionally illiterate means a person has basic reading and writing skills (probably at the 5th/6th grade level)....but they are not high enough to manage everyday tasks and live independently in modern society.
Math-wise? You can probably add and subtract....as long as you are dealing with a sum of 1,000 or less. Multiplication and division? You might be able to handle 2-digit numbers.
Explaining this?
I think the number cited is probably incorrect...maybe off by half. What you have is a 2nd and 3rd generation descendants of drug-users...who were generically altered in some way, and face reality today of being 'slow'. If you gave a math problem (102 x 56)...a normal guy would take 30 seconds to reach a solution. The 'slow-guy' would require probably 60 to 90 seconds, but still reach the solution.
We need a invented term to place into the system....instead of using functionally illiterate.
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