BASIC COMPETENCES: NECESSARY BUT NOT SUFFICIENT. In 1995, John Allen Paulos, a doctor of mathematics and professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, published his book ‘A mathematician reads the newspaper’. In it, he invites us to ‘mathematically’ read between the lines of an imaginary newspaper in an attempt to make us understand that, if we settle for being numeric, “the complex world around us will eventually escape our control.” His proposal, look for the strategy behind each headline or perceive what is random, true or false, behind certain news, in order to avoid feeling lost, scammed or deceived. The problem is that there are many ways to formulate news: we can focus it according to our interests or hide information behind flashy figures.

Let’s take an example. There is no doubt that the closure of schools to deal with the pandemic meant that many students were unable to continue their learning process because they did not have the right tools. According to data from the INE, 95% of the households of a couple with children had a computer in 2021. We could headline ‘Only 5% without a PC’… but of single parents it was 15.3%. And if we talk about numbers and not percentages, 627,259 family households did not have computer equipment at home, which gives rise to formulating something more sensational such as ‘More than half a million students cannot access a PC’.

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Another one. As announced by the ‘State System of Education Indicators’, in 2021, 84.4% of young people between the ages of 16 and 24 had basic or advanced digital skills. But what is behind that data? Four areas are evaluated: information, communication, problem solving and software skills. That is, just search the Internet, use RR. SS., take a photo, edit it and send it with the mobile to be competent. But if we talk about computer skills we have that although 78% of young people handle word processors, only 65% ​​use spreadsheets and 42% go beyond ‘chopping’ figures in these. Not to mention programming: only 15% do it. For this reason, we should not only question the information, but also the frameworks that assess the extent to which society is prepared. Being more proficient in math and computer science is a good resolution for the new course. Don’t you think?

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