The Numerator Generation

We’re Raising Kids Who Can’t Do the Math — And It’s Making Them Sitting Ducks

Dec 11, 2025

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Numerator at the top and denominator at the bottom

We’ve created a generation—parents and children alike—paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And it’s working, because we’ve lost the ability to ask the most basic question: compared to what?

UCSD students walk past the Applied Physics and Mathematics building on campus in La Jolla on Nov. 24, 2025.

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