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Re:U.S. math scores drop on major international test by barry-cotter on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @06:18PM (#42382813)
> It's also the primary medium schools use to communicate analytical reasoning and deductive analysis.

That would be news to History and English teachers among others. You need to learn to make a structured and coherent argument based on evidence in many subjects and the evidence for the existence of transfer learning is so weak it seems unlikely basic Math makes the average or even 75th percentile student better at reasoning. Most people follow a formula at best, and forget that much rapidly after the end of school.

Re:U.S. math scores drop on major international test by lanternfish on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @07:05PM (#42383145)
I'd differentiate here between deductive and inductive reasoning. While english and history - through argumentation - expose some deductive reasoning, the vast majority of it is inductive.