"Math is hard."

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From knell:

This story's been doing the rounds today. I think it's worth it just for the priceless quote:

"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it.".

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[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

About a week ago, I encountered a graduate of a top-10-rated US college studying for their GREs. I spent about 15 minutes trying to explain to them why -9-7 was different from -9-(-7). It was horrible. Why oh why is the negative number concept so hard?!?!? I know for a fact that it is covered by about third or fourth grade.