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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
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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.
Same for us airplane drivers: "Traffic two o'clock, four miles,
eastbound, altitude unknown, closing fast." Where to look??
-jc-
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