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Probably should've just asked Wolfram Alpha

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maybe the intent is to make people even dumber. It’s just misinformation all the way down.

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't even be surprised at this point. It seems the system is intentionally designed to discourage critical thinking and apparently knowing how to do math properly is too close for comfort now.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Someone I know had an old friend on their Facebook timeline say that schools should be reformed and don’t need classes like algebra. Then they proceeded to list fields kids could receive training for instead… and all of them required math of some sort.