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Surely the node should be "person X was taught basic mathematics", and not mathematics itself?
The point of having the node is to have a common cause of person X's beliefs about mathematics and person Y's beliefs about mathematics that explains why these two beliefs are correlated even if both discovered said mathematics interdependently.