Tony Tebby wrote: > You son would do fine here (in France). My son has just taken his French > essay paper for the baccalauriat. This year the French paper has > "Calculators not allowed for this paper" in big letters on the front - > apparently French schoolchildren (sorry - young adult students) are all at > sea without a calculator. This I can well believe (ignoring the probably unintentional pun of All At Sea and Floating Point), though I fail to understand why your son might need a calculator in a FRENCH ESSAY paper???
Yet the strange thing is at 8 years old my son enjoys maths and can usually work out simple arithmetic much faster in his head than finding and fiddling with a calculator. Probably started as he meant to go along in future years by trying to flush away that calculator! And yes, like his dad, he's a computer nut, though sadly it's Windows in his case not qdosmsq :-( (there, just about back on topic!) -- Dilwyn Jones
