Americans get in their own way of being good at math
It’s no secret that Americans aren’t exactly leading the pack in mathematics. Out of the profusion of statistics that support this fact, the most telling may be that math performance by American high school graduates is roughly the same as most high school dropouts in other countries. My newest study …
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