Jul. 29, 2012 at 9:35pm with 26 notes
Reblogged from tanya77
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It’s not hard to understand why Caltech and M.I.T. want everyone to be proficient in mathematics. But it’s not easy to see why potential poets and philosophers face a lofty mathematics bar. Demanding algebra across the board actually skews a student body, not necessarily for the better.
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Is Algebra Necessary? - NYTimes.com (via evangotlib)

Is this a joke? YES, everyone should know Algebra (at LEAST). YES, we should all know math. Math is the foundation of everything in our world. It is the basis of all physics, all nature and science, it is the matrix behind everything that seems to us to be wild and haphazard in nature. It is everything.
Really, it’s like wondering if we all need to learn how to write a good paragraph.
Yes.

(via tanya77)

“It would be far better to reduce, not expand, the mathematics we ask young people to imbibe.” 

Whoa… this is downright dangerous thinking. 

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