There's an excessively long but nevertheless interesting interview with the strange and too-frank-for-her-own-good actress Sienna Miller in the on-line edition of The Guardian yesterday (March 3/07).
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2025133,00.html What caught my attention was her opinion on the merits of teaching the long division algorithm, which I debated recently here with Allen Esterson. Her interviewer said: "At school she loved English, drama, history, lacrosse. She hated maths - thought it was pointless, and made sure her teachers knew." Then her interviewer quoted her as saying, among many other things she really shouldn't have: "I'd say, 'When would I use long division?' and the teacher would say, 'When you're in a supermarket and you want to calculate the price of your food before you get to the till,' and I'd think, 'Well, I'd take a f*cking calculator, you nob.'" I do recognize that endorsement of my view by this daft young actress is not necessarily a good thing. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
