What Mathematics Do You Think Everyone Should Learn in School?

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I would like everyone to know basic algebra, trigonometry, geometry. I think that we do try to teach those basic things. As John Allen-Pello said, there are plenty of things in statistics and probability that absolutely should be taught more. You know, it's not that hard to understand Bayes' theorem when they come out of high school. So that would be nice, but you know, a lot of things are nice.

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