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MoMath: Manhattan's Museum of Mathematics
Submitted by Bradley Keyes on Fri, 2012-12-14 01:00
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Lawrence has no doubts: the problem is in rote learning in school. "It's like teaching kids to read music, and never even telling them that instruments exist," she says. "You don't fix that by more testing. You do it with a cultural institution that can change the norms and perceptions about math - we want to be that place."
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