Today, apart from a few core skills like reading, writing, math, thinking, imagining and creating, we cannot know what knowledge or skills will be needed when young Freddie or tiny Janet grows up.

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Few people have tried to analyze any of the math or the thinking behind the policy, choosing instead to focus on demeanor and image.

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Get girls interested in science and math, the thinking goes, and they grow up into women earning 33 percent more than their peers in non-STEM jobs.

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It pays to do the math, and that means thinking in terms of net rent.

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But then Lisette was rarely called on in math class sometimes she shut her eyes, pretending that she was thinking really hard, and when she opened them there was one of the three or four smart kids in the class at the board, taking the chalk from Nowicki.

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D.s in business manage to repackage the most glaring examples of common sense and the obvious in so much math and psychology mumbo jumbo that the uninitiated are actually, if only temporarily, fooled into thinking that something profound is going on.

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