Apparently, the California community college system is considering allowing students in non-STEM majors to fulfill a math requirement by taking statistics, rather than algebra. The idea behind the ...
The New York Times ran a piece last weekend by Andrew Hacker, a professor of political science at Queens College of the City University of New York, who asked whether algebra was necessary, and then ...
An argument for remediation if students don't understand algebra enough to study the physical sciences, toward an overall liberal arts education. The Feb. 3 opinion piece, "Who Needs Remediation?," ...
The Austrian Economists and Dani Rodrik have been talking about the use of mathematical formalism in their field. I think Rodrik gets it right: In other words, we use math not because we are smart, ...
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