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It just doesn’t add up: One in three adults can’t do simple sums past 100 without a calculator
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 18:14 EST, 12 March 2013 | Amanda Williams

Posted on 03/13/2013 1:57:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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1 posted on 03/13/2013 1:57:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I believe this.


2 posted on 03/13/2013 1:58:35 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Olog-hai

The 47 million people on food stamps can calculate, to the penny, exactly how much they deserve.


3 posted on 03/13/2013 2:00:27 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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I’m still dumbfounded when ADULTS can’t count out correct change without a cash register.


4 posted on 03/13/2013 2:00:32 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Jonty30

It’s soooooo fun to watch the cashiers in a store when the electricity goes out. Forced the stores to get generators.


5 posted on 03/13/2013 2:01:48 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

They also know how to convert it into drug money.


6 posted on 03/13/2013 2:02:35 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

excellent point.


7 posted on 03/13/2013 2:03:57 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Jonty30

I don’t. I believe the sumbers are much worse.


8 posted on 03/13/2013 2:06:05 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder how many people (likely older and with the ability to do simple things like addition and subtraction) still think 1984 and the ideas it covered, aren’t what we are living today. Many used to poo poo the notion.


9 posted on 03/13/2013 2:07:41 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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My grand daughter is a third grader here in NC and she is being introduced to elementary algebra.
10 posted on 03/13/2013 2:09:03 PM PDT by dearolddad (/i>)
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Hate to say, but my own personal policy is that when a cashier overpays me in change that I say *nothing* anymore and I donate the excess to my church. I used to correct these people in the past and all too often they’d get offended and sometimes even yell at me for insulting their intelligence.

To me the insult was self-evident.

Anyhow, I figure if I say nothing then that person is one step closer to their new job.

And then I go home and teach my kids multiplication tables, short division, and business algebra instead of the mindless ‘theories’ the public schools teach about math anymore.


11 posted on 03/13/2013 2:09:55 PM PDT by MeganC (The left have so twisted public perceptions that the truth now appears pornographic.- SpaceBar)
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One in three adults can’t do simple sums past 100 without a calculator

They are being taught by unionized government employee teachers...Of course they know nothing.

All while the unionized teacher salaries and benefits over the past 20 years has increased dramatically and they demand more $ every single year.

yuk yuk...

12 posted on 03/13/2013 2:10:02 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Now we know why a large chunk of the voters think that government spending can be increased and paid for soley by a tax on “the rich.” We are doomed.


13 posted on 03/13/2013 2:14:01 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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14 posted on 03/13/2013 2:14:19 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Jonty30

That’s why I don’t believe in using computers/calculators in school....learn math the old-fashioned way.


15 posted on 03/13/2013 2:14:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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We old engineers sometimes found “trial and error” solutions by the Newton-Raphson method using a bamboo sliderule and our designs proved to be viable. We were slow but well versed in many phases of engineering.

New graduates are specialized and sit in front of a computer and use canned programs to make sophisticated calculations and are sometimes not even sure if their answers are correct.


16 posted on 03/13/2013 2:16:18 PM PDT by 353FMG ( I refuse to specify whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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Teaching Math In 1950
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?

Teaching Math In 1960
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?

Teaching Math In 1970
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?

Teaching Math In 1980
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20 Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

Teaching Math In 1990
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living?
Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers.)

Teaching Math In 2013
Un ranchero vende una carretera de madera para $100. El cuesto de la produccion era $80. Cuantos tortillas
se puede comprar?


17 posted on 03/13/2013 2:17:03 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I’ve personally maintained that the first time calculators should be formally introduced is college. A high school graduate should be able to do all the way through calculus without a calculator.


18 posted on 03/13/2013 2:17:37 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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All while the unionized teacher salaries and benefits over the past 20 years has increased dramatically and they demand more $ every single year.

I know. It just doesn't add up to me.

19 posted on 03/13/2013 2:19:02 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: dfwgator

LOLOLOLOL!


20 posted on 03/13/2013 2:19:17 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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