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Originally Posted by blkgsr
by make them learn math and sciences in french only to never use that language, ever.
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Math and numbers in French has always been one of my biggest pet peeves. Why would anyone ever think 96 should be spelled out in words as "four times twenty plus sixteen"? It never fails to amaze me how there were all these famous French mathematicians like Pascal, Fermat, and Descartes math contests...
In that regard, I think Chinese is a vastly superior language for math, and that is what I have been trying to teach my kid to use for math. But nope... he still thinks in fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, instead of ten-five, ten-six, ten-seven...