Wow...I agree. I think the problem here is not that the students don't understand the meaning of the "=", but that it is stupid to use a empty pair of brackets (with no well defined mathematical meaning) as a substitution for a variable...
Is this really how single-variable-algebra is taught in US high-schools?
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Wow...I agree. I think the problem here is not that the students don't understand the meaning of the "=", but that it is stupid to use a empty pair of brackets (with no well defined mathematical meaning) as a substitution for a variable... Is this really how single-variable-algebra is taught in US high-schools?