Re: Senseless Utterance == On the Doctrine of Angels ... (No Content)
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Hi derick:
I think the key to this article is the idea, impled but not stated, that we should be teaching our children probability theory at an early age. I think it should start in about the third grade and continue right through high school.
If this was done there's no question that our whole society would function much better and our accomplishments would appear to be virtually unlimited relative to what is being done today. Of course the poker games wouldn't be as good.
Best wishes,
Mason
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Interesting. I've always wondered why our math education progresses so slowly (I've always figured 'algebra' as taught in highschool could start at least in the 5th grade for most students, and then so on), but I never considered probability and statistics for some reason. I believe you're right, though.
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