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Why are we teaching thirteen year olds how to use the quadratic formula? Why are we teaching seventeen year olds how to do integrals or multiply matrices?

I mean, I am all for letting kids be kids, but if school was limited to what <insert age group> find's interesting, it would be nothing but gossip, sex, drugs, and video games.



Are you really comparing Excel's place in computing to the Quadratic formula's place in mathematics?


no, i am comparing excel's place in the life of a kid to the quadratic formula's




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