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Re:Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learni... by alasdair_ on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @07:35PM (#14748985)
This would be true if calculating the volume of various shapes was something that kids did for 16 hours a day, every day.

Formulae without context are meaningless to most.

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