> ------------------------<snip>--------------------- > > A point that should be obvious if anyone has ever confronted a checkout > clerk during a power failure. Around Greater Chicagoland, even many > second graders are permitted to use calculators in class, to the > detriment of arithmetic studies. :-( > -----------------<unsnip>----------------------
I was talking to a public school teacher in this area (Johnson County Kansas) at a Christmas party about the teaching of math and the "New Math". She said that the school systems here are actually pulling away from New Math, using addition and multiplication table memorization again, and requiring the use of pencils and brains instead of calculators. It's about time. ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
