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Our Schools Have a Problem: Textbook Math Doesn’t Help in Real Life — and Vice Versa
For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...
In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...
Things are either equal or they aren’t – mathematically speaking, at least, right? Not so fast, says Eugenia Cheng in her new book, Unequal: The maths of when things do and don’t add up. In ...
ELIZABETH VAN HEUVELEN is a senior economist in the IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department. Opinions expressed in articles and other materials are those of the authors; they do not necessarily ...
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