I throw in the following quote from an article by Dea Birkett
on the "National Numeracy Strategy" (Guardian, Tuesday December 11)
[ see the link "And counting" on ]
[ http://www.education.guardian.co.uk/higher/maths/ ]
Columns are the first casualty in this push for understanding.
"Putting numbers underneath each other is a very useful skill
if the aim is to perform additions correctly," says Alan Graham,
lecturer in mathematical education at the Open University.
"But if you put them on a single line you have to look at them
more intuitively."
I quiver with anticipation at the delightful prospect
of receiving a helpfully intuitive bank statement.
-- Ewart Shaw
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Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/statsdept/Staff/JEHS/
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