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What High School Math Could Be: Retargeting Ambition 🏹

What High School Math Could Be: Retargeting Ambition 🏹

Of the four core subjects, high school math has the highest ambitions—but also the most misplaced. The result of our default sequence is that students graduate high school unable to apply math to help them make better decisions across a range of contexts, both personal and professional. In this piece we contemplate what math could be—and why it matters for us all.