Regents and Mathematical Language

In a topic close to my own heart, and getting front-page coverage around here, the NY Regents board comes face-to-face with the ambiguity inherent in trying to express mathematics through English. There’s a reason we have mathematical symbols, on top of which people very rarely intersperse computation symbols and language in practice, making it an even more falsely constructed problem.

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