On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 at 09:03:22, Robert Newson wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
>Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>
>> 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, 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!
>
>
>Years ago when I was doing my O-Levels, they introduced a calculator
>exam in maths that I took. It stated on the front of that paper that
>"approved calculators were allowed, but NOT slide rules". All we could
>ask was "what advantage does a slide rule have over a calculator other
>than you can draw a straight line with it?"
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