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Nicholson Baker Argues that Algebra II Shouldn’t Be a Required Course

“Life’s prerequisites are courtesy and kindness, the times tables, fractions, percentages, ratios, reading, writing, some history — the rest is gravy, really.”

Dehumanized

by Mark Slouka,

When math and science rule the school

Weekly Review

by Theodore Ross,

President George W. Bush officially replaced the phrase “stay the course” in Iraq with “We will stay in Iraq,” and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki insisted he never agreed to…

President George W. Bush signed a $400 billion Medicare bill that will provide a prescription-drug benefit to elderly Americans; the bill permits private insurance companies to compete with Medicare, which…

Iterations of immortality

by David Berlinski,

How many licks in a Tootsie Pop?

by Harper’s Staff,

Lowest common denominator

by Harper’s Staff,

Math for the bitter

by Kevin J. Mistrik, Robert C. Thul,

Armageddon by the numbers

by Bruce G. Blair,

Plato in Vermont

by Hugh Kenner,

The ideal tree, and how to count it

Mathematics

Nicholson Baker Argues that Algebra II Shouldn’t Be a Required Course

Dehumanized

Weekly Review

Original sine

Weekly Review

Iterations of immortality

How many licks in a Tootsie Pop?

Lowest common denominator

Math for the bitter

Armageddon by the numbers

Plato in Vermont

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Mathematics

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Nicholson Baker Argues that Algebra II Shouldn’t Be a Required Course

Dehumanized

Weekly Review

Original sine

Weekly Review

Iterations of immortality

How many licks in a Tootsie Pop?

Lowest common denominator

Math for the bitter

Armageddon by the numbers

Plato in Vermont

October 1981

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