I recently witnessed one nephew show his cluelessness at doing long division.
My other nephew was trying to show him how to do it but the first nephew kept reaching for the cell phone calculator.
My brother, his wife and I were shocked and amazed at his inability to do long division.
Long division? On paper, using your brain? No one does that anymore. Imagine using a slide rule.
> My brother, his wife and I were shocked and amazed at his inability to do long division. <
Remember those multiplication and division tables? My school district now forbids teachers to teach them! Try to do so, and you’ll get in trouble.
That happened to a middle-school teacher friend of mine. She passed out multiplication tables to her students. The principal found out. My friend was told to collect all those tables the very next day, or else!
So yeah, ask a kid these days what 5x6 equals, and you’ll get a blank stare. They are taught to rely on calculators, and not on their brains.
Don’t blame the teachers. They understand what’s going on. But they are helpless in all this.
Spelling, grammar and vocabulary. I don’t know how this generation that’s coming of age is going to function.
I still miss cursive. Now it’s all block letters. A whole generation that writes like retards.
I had a real hoot at the local auto parts store awhile back. A guy brought in a carburetor looking for a rebuild kit. The kid behind the counter didn’t have a clue what he was looking at. I explained to him what it was and what the customer was looking for. A couple of older customers had a good laugh.
I knew of a person circa early 90s with a bachelor degree in accounting that couldn’t either.
How about short division? They taught that in the Catholic school I went too in the third grade to save paper. early 1960’s