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		WalterBright on Sept 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How America's universities became debt factories There's a reason why 3rd grade "teachers' edition" textbooks for math exist. It's because those teachers need an answer key for 100+200. As for "good at math", it's hard to see how a teacher with a degree can fail at 3rd grade arithmetic.

pokerface_86 on Sept 17, 2024 [–]

i have literally witnessed students in a senior level discrete math class struggle with simple algebraic operations. they were on the math education track.

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