If remark about putting numbers on a single line is referring to: >"They record the results of their mental calculations using a > horizontal format." For example, 86+57=86+50+7=136+7=143.
Then I see nothing wrong with this (and it has NOTHING to do with what sorts of paper you bank will be sending you -- you're confusing purposes here: what configuration helps young children learn v. what's the most efficient way to present the story of the ebb and flow of my money). At 12:18 PM +0000 12/14/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote: >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 >-- >J.E.H.Shaw [Ewart Shaw] [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEL: +44 2476 523069 > Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K. > http://www.warwick.ac.uk/statsdept/Staff/JEHS/ >3 ((4&({*.(=+/))++/=3:)@([:,/0&,^:(i.3)@|:"2^:2))&.>@]^:(i.@[) <#:3 6 2 ________________________________ Jill Binker Fathom Dynamic Statistics Software KCP Technologies, an affiliate of Key Curriculum Press 1150 65th St Emeryville, CA 94608 1-800-995-MATH (6284) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.keypress.com http://www.keycollege.com __________________________________ ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
