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Re:Stepping into math: Open-sourcing our step-by-step solver by exDM69 on Thursday January 19, 2017 @01:52PM (#13438408)
> PROBLEM: It is a socially acceptable to be bad at math and I am talking 4th or 3rd grade math!

This is a huge issue and some people even take pride in being "bad at math". That's like being proud of being illiterate.

And these people hardly know what math means. They are bad in arithmetic and stopped there.

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Re:Stepping into math: Open-sourcing our step-by-step solver by dhimes on Thursday January 19, 2017 @02:34PM (#13438776)
Totally agree. And now it's extending to all of science.
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Re:Stepping into math: Open-sourcing our step-by-step solver by cderwin on Thursday January 19, 2017 @10:39PM (#13441584)
I don't really think people in general being bad at math is a problem. The real problem is that it's somewhat socially unacceptable -- particularly among less academic people -- to be good at math.
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