I have more than once tutored my own children, neighbors children, etc.. in
mathematics and basic algebra.
The first thing i always do is take away the calculator!
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My wife teaches fifth grade and tells me that her kids can't tell time on
an analog clock. They grew up in a digital world! Most analog devices are
more accurate than their digital counter parts. Take the clock, there is an
infinite number of places between the 12 and the 1.
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> ====== Robert A. Rosenberg ====== wrote 2008-08-09 06:29:
> > At 11:43 AM -0500 on 8/6/08, Rick Fochtman wrote about Re: California's
> > COBOL payroll system:
> >
> > When second-graders are permitted to use calculators for arithmetic
> >
> > Something predicted over 60 years ago in a story by Science Fiction
> > Author Isaac Asimov. In his story, set in the far future, everyone uses
> > a Hand Calculator and the concept of being able to do arithmetic by
hand
> > is not even imagined until a mathematical genus reinvents arithmetic by
> > studying the results produced by his Hand Calculator.
>
> That story is hilarious ! :)
>
>
> Thomas Berg
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