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Janet Hale on 04 Mar 13"A new museum devoted to math (CBS News) Take an unpopular academic subject, a dedicated visionary, and $23 three million, and what have you got? Why, it all adds up to the museum our Mo Rocca's about to guide us through: math. The very word conjures painful memories: long division . . . Square roots . . . The quadratic equation. Not only do most of us not like it; we're also not very good at it. In an international test of 15-year-olds, the U.S. placed 24th out of 64 countries. "We don't currently, in this country, have a cultural expectation that yeah, you're going to learn math just like you're going to learn reading," said Glen Whitney. "It's okay to not be good at math." Glen Whitney is good at math."