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Weapons of Math Destruction?

Aug 27, 2017 | Sherman Oaks

It's no pun. Learn how Math is used through Algortihms that affect every aspect of your life without you even knowing about it. According to Cathy O'Neil "Algorithms are opinions embedded in code. It's really different from what you think most people think of algorithms. They think algorithms are objective and true and scientific. That's a marketing trick.

It's also a marketing trick to intimidate you with algorithms, to make you trust and fear algorithms because you trust and fear mathematics. A lot can go wrong when we put blind faith in big data.

At Mathnasium of Sherman Oaks we always set out to conquer kids fear of Math. The implications of that fear could haunt them forever.

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