Re: [math-fun] Is algebra necessary?

I also have a hard time accepting the idea that general people do not need to know and should not be taught algebra. But the best argument for that stance might be (which is not mentioned at all in the newspaper of course) the advent of software like mathematica.

The intersection of people who struggle with basic algebra and the people who use Mathematica has a cardinality equal to the infimum of positive reals. :P Sincerely, Adam P. Goucher