Espen Andersen
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Espen Andersen Andersen
Espen Andersen, associate professor at the Norwegian School of Management and an editor of Ubiquity, a magazine published by the Association for Computing Manufacturers, writes that students see math as hard, boring and irrelevant, and do not respond to motivational factors such as easier admission to higher education or interesting and important work. In an effort to convince students, Mr. Andersen's essay at acm.org/ubiquity points out that taking high school math will make one smarter and will help in making more money by making one lose less money, and refers to maths as cool.