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In Philly, we went that way back in the 80's. My stepson lost two years of math
"education" when they dropped New Math.
Then, a couple of years later, the school he attended introduced "clock math". His mother and I
were "WTH is CLOCK MATH?"... It took us a few days/weeks/whatever to notice "clock math"
was nothing more than a base twelve system of math. Base twelve, yeah, that'll get you a job. The least
they could have done was use base 8 or 16. Then the students would understand compter math.
After a year or so, they dropped that one too.
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How many grade school kids can read a non-digital clock today? I'm an
anachronism among my friends because I wear a watch that still has hands
and a dial on it.
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