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Is algebra an unnecessary stumbling block in US schools?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The short answer is that students are going to need algebra at some point in their careers and that learning it goes a lot further toward teaching them to actually think than bullsquat courses that "teach them to think analytically."
Posted by: Fred 2016-03-28
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=450481