I did not allow my daughter to use a calculator until she was in college! There I had no control.
Warren -------------- Original message from Joe Aulph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -------------- > 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! > > Cheers, > > Joe Aulph, > Senior Systems Programmer: > 850-487-8945 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Warren Brown > > Sent by: IBM To > Mainframe [email protected] > Discussion List cc > > .EDU> Subject > Re: California's COBOL payroll > system > 08/10/2008 04:54 > PM > > > Please respond to > IBM Mainframe > Discussion List > > .EDU> > > > > > > > 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. > -------------- Original message from Thomas Berg : > -------------- > > > > ====== 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 > > > > -- > > > > __________________________ > > > > Mundus Vult Decipi > > __________________________ > > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety > > deserve neither liberty nor safety. > > - Benjamin Franklin > > > > Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. > > - Groucho Marx > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
