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At the University of Illinois last week, a big man in a rumpled brown suit strode up to a blackboard and wrote: ‘ times zero equals zero.” Then he asked ten junior-high-school students to make the ...

Q: Our 10-year-old son has struggled with math at school and complains about it a lot at home. We worry that our daughter, a third-grader, is picking up from him the idea that math is hard and boring.