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You are taught this is 6th or 7th grade. The students just don't remember, or lack the ability to contextualize it in the workplace.

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This is where taking a more holistic approach to curriculum planning would pay off. If the weeks after you were taught these (or any other) concepts in math class they start showing up in your science and geography classes, you'd probably remember them better and have a better understanding of how to use them.

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