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		hawleyal on Feb 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Many McGill Education Students Cannot Calculate an... It's just a student expressing outrage at his classmates ignorance of basic math. Especially future teachers.

j2kun on Feb 20, 2015 [–]

Also something that competent mathematicians interested in education have been discussing for many years. It's interesting how we choose to call anecdotes "writing on the wall" when it turns out to be correct and "unsubstantiated by data" in other scenarios.

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