134. Why Do We Still Teach People to Calculate? | People I (Mostly) Admire

Conrad Wolfram wants to transform the way we teach math — by taking advantage of computers. The Mathematica creator convinced the Estonian government to give his radical curriculum a try — so why is the rest of the world so resistant?

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