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by version_five 1266 days ago
> For example any maths test which only tests students on problems which are easily solvable by a calculator isn't testing any skill of real world use.

True in university, but memorizing multiplication tables and learning the mechanics of long division and multiplication are important parts or math education for kids. Most of school is not strictly for "real world" skills anyway (even if doing basic math unaided is almost as close as we come in school to teaching a real world skill).

Same goes for say, basic reading comprehension and summarization.

I don't buy your argument