Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/21

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Subject: [Leica] Calculator collecting anyone?
From: summarex at hotmail.com (Javier Perez)
Date: Thu Feb 21 19:59:54 2008
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A scarey story indeed!
But it should be pointerd out that it was the algebraic calculators that 
ruined kids' math skills. 
The RPNs were harmless!
Javier
 
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:13:10 -0600> From: jsmith342@gmail.com> To: 
> lug@leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] Calculator collecting anyone?> > 
> There's something to be said for *not* using a calcuclator until one has> 
> learned math. I witnessed an appalling incident in which a high school> 
> superintendent over all of the "special" public high schools down here 
> told> us that he wanted to use 6 of our classrooms for each of his 4 years 
> of> students. I knew that we couldn't afford to give away 24 rooms, but 
> my> colleague, in apparent disbelief, said "HOW MANY CLASSES DO YOU 
> NEED?!!" as> sort of a rhetorical question. The superintendent had to 
> write down on paper> 6+6, take the sum of that, add 6 to it and take the 
> sum, and then add a> fourth 6 to it. He then replied "Twenty six". It was 
> bad enough that he> hadn't learned his multiplication tables, but when he 
> couldn't add 6+6+6+6> and come up with the right sum, we knew things had 
> reached a sorry state.> -- > Jeffery L. Smith> New Orleans, LA> > 
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