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  1. midway

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    I have a Filipino kid who works for me in a small LLC that I own. He moved here to the US with his family about our years ago after graduating from school in the Philippines. He is trying to join the military and having a hard time with the ASVAB test. Some of the questions he told me that he is having problems with are basic math problems. One of these is to calculate the area of a triangle. I had to think about this one because it has been a while. (Height * Base *1/2 in case anyone else is scratching their head thinking about this one). I also asked him what 1+2*3=. When he told me 9 I asked him if he knew what the order of operations were he said "no". I explained to him that the order of operations were brackets (), then multiplication and division (left to right), followed by addition and subtraction (left to right). Due to the order of operations this means that the answer is 7. He then told me that he really liked working for me because he learns something every day he comes to work, and that he was never taught the order of operations in school.

    This makes me hope that the extra two years added to the school curriculum in the Philippines will be used to educate the students.
     
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    Free ASVAB Study Guide

    They also have a practice test on there. His jobs in the military are going to be extremely limited if he can't score over 60 (31 is the minimum for the Army). They were letting in guys with scores as low as 21 when I was in but they had only a couple jobs available...I remember "Laundry Technician" being one of them. :bored:

    The Army has a program called the "Army Preparatory School" to bring drop outs up to par (I would consider most Filipino high school graduates at the same education level of a 5th grade drop out from the West). You didn't say which branch he was trying to join but I would suspect it's the Navy since that seems to be what most Filipinos go for. Maybe he should consider the Army since they have lower standards and are willing (at least they used to) to give waivers to people who score below the minimum ASVAB test score. Army Preparatory School
    [DOUBLEPOST=1439778158,1439778021][/DOUBLEPOST]FYI: ASVAB and Army Jobs | Military.com
     
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    Have him sit down for like an hour a day with Khan Academy. Then there are many other places he can pick up and practice math and other subjects if he gets through those.
     
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