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Below, is a reblog of an article from the Washington Post about teaching U.S. elementary school teachers how to teach math. One sad part about not having humanists and interpretive social scientists more involved in these kinds of discussions is that we can see the place where A and B and C should connect but don't . . . For example, in this article, Americans are castigated for our deplorable math scores. Similarly, the point is made that kids do better in math if they start learning certain conceptual apparati early--such as algebraic thinking.