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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
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> 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.
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> I'l give you the big "AMEN" on that. I've interviewed too
> many "college graduates" that couldn't read a preface, or
> balabce their own checkbooks. How do you tell those people
> that they're nothing more than "Educated Morons" ??
And remember the NFL player who "graduated" from college while remaining
illiterate.
-jc-
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