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The Little Star - with Zvezdelina Stankova

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Is There a Difference Between Boys and Girls in High School?

We started learning proofs in fifth grad the same fift grade. Every problem we had to prove that our solution was correct, to supply the evidence. I never saw this two column format proof in geometry. That's super restrictive. So from an early age, we were really taught to approach problems like mathematicians. And discontinued all through high school was this s of the high school alwais because of the extra curricular math circle work you were doing. Neither it was because of the government. The government had a programme that was uniform for all schools.

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