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Algebra not used? Bah! You use it every time you cut down a recipe or calculate how many invitations to send versus how much food to have at the party. I use it daily in my work, and I do not do rocket science.
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quote: Juggling and video games take as much hand eye coordination as surgery.
Man, I'm in the wrong business then. I can beat Sonic 3 & Knuckles in under a half hour, think I should apply for organ surgery or start humble with appendectomies and stuff?
honestly though it's so nice to see Cohen mentioned again, even in an old thread. That guy's a little out there.
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Can we at least agree that kids need to learn enough math to understand the probabilities and statistics that come up all the time in the news? Of course, this would include understanding what these numbers actually say, and, importantly, what they don't say, about issues. Still, I'm not sure you can do probability and statistics without some symbol manipulation of the type used in algebra.
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