Jensen Huang says forgotten times tables don't matter — and critics push back
josh_wills · x · 2026-09-26
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang argued that long division and multiplication tables no longer matter for kids. Designer dieworkwear pushed back: math matters for rigorous thinking, and causal inference is essential for critically evaluating public claims — education shouldn't be valued only by market utility.
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