A top-rated public university says many of its students can’t round numbers or add fractions.

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth nationally by U.S. News & World Report—can’t do either, according to a new analysis from the university. Read, and weep for the future of America.

Roughly one in eight freshmen lack rudimentary high-school math skills, defined as geometry, algebra and algebra 2. It gets worse: Students who had been placed in a remedial high-school math class in 2023 had roughly fifth-grade-level abilities. Only 39% could correctly round the number 374,518 to the nearest hundred—a third-grade skill.