I’m currently reading The One World Schoolhouse by Salmon Khan, the founder of the Khan Academy. The Khan Academy started when Sal was tutoring his cousin Nadia. She was intuitive and brilliant, but had failed a crucial math test because she didn’t understand unit conversion. Sal makes an interesting point: Why did she have trouble with unit conversion? She didn’t know, and neither did I. But let’s think about a few o...
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