My father, who was trained in engineering at M. I. T. in the slide-rule era, often lamented the way the pocket calculator, for all its convenience, diminished my generation's math skills.

我的父亲，在幻灯片统治时代，他在麻省理工学院接受工程教育，经常感叹由于袖珍计算器带来的便利性，削弱了我这一代人的数学能力。

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In high school I was a math whiz, and so I spent my first year of college at M. I. T., learning that I did not have the burning desire to be an engineer.

在高中的时候，我是一名数学天才，所以我大学的第一年是在麻省理工大学度过的，在哪里学期期间，并没有燃烧起我做工程师的愿望。

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But I don 't like math.

但我不喜欢数学。

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Co-author Andresse St.Rose says, for example,while girls earn high school math credits at the same rate as boys, the myth that girls aren't good at math is persistent and powerful.

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Now, of course, that's a bit of a cheat because the claim isn't to spend eternity doing math problems and nothing but math problems.

当然这有欺人之嫌,因为并非要求永远解决数学问题,其他什么都不做。

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I don't want anybody to quit this class because they're worried about math or math notation.

我不希望你们因为对数学,或是数学符号的恐惧而放弃这门课

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We weren't math majors, but when we figure it out....let's see....carry the two....hold the one.....uh....well, it's a been a long time coming, anyways!

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But it wasn't until math met merchant in the free West that it became a tool of social advancement.

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Think about -- I wasn't a math major, but I just want -- (laughter) -- if you're using 20, you've only got 2, that means you got to bring in the rest from someplace else.

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