Comment Actual link to bill (Score 1) 350
In case it hasn't been posted yet, here's a link to the actual bill hosted on Wired
Comment Parentheses were not actually used (Score 1) 1268
Seems like a bad transcription of an interview with the researcher.
In the actual journal article they either used an underline or nothing at all, eg. "6 + 9= __ + 4" and "__ + 3 = 5 + 7 = "
I'm also not really surprised since as other posters have mentioned I don't really remember learning any real algebra until 6-8 grade. This really just means that Chinese kids learn this stuff earlier than US kids and maybe US kids should learn it early on as well.
Comment Re:The Actual Bill (Score 2, Informative) 540
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