This Is Wild

Apparently, at Duke University researchers have discovered that monkeys can "perform mental addition." The scary part is "that they performed about as well as college students given the same test." Yikes! Although, from my experience teaching developmental math, I am not all that surprised. When you ask a student was 8 plus 4 is, and they reach for their calculator, it is scary.

Does this tell us something about the intelligence of monkeys, or the inadequacy of math education in our public schools?