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We teach the wrong math, tested in the wrong way, writes Ted Dintersmith.

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KoBold Metals just broke ground on a $2.3 billion copper mine in Zambia that an algorithm flagged. Now humans have to dig it, ...

A 9th-century Persian scholar, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, revolutionized mathematics by introducing systematic methods for solving equations, laying the groundwork for algebra. His name gave rise ...

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