This is what happens when children are allowed to use pocket calculators in arithmetic class.
They can't do arithmetic.
But they have self-esteem ... and that's what really matters, isn't it?
Multi-pliers.
The Dems have been remarkably successful in systematically dumbing down the population. Having useful skills, abilities and purpose has been cast as somehow being selfish and an enemy of the collective.
Un-doing this destructive mindset is nearly impossible now.
***This is what happens when children are allowed to use pocket calculators in arithmetic class.***
I knew a man, in the 1980s, who could do math in his mind so fast it overwhelmed everyone in the plant.
Then the company bought pocket calculators for everyone.
Within two years he could no longer do math in his mind as fast as he used to and had to rely on his calculator.
“This is what happens when children are allowed to use pocket calculators in arithmetic class.”
Bingo. They might actually be helpful in high school when you get to trigonometry or something, but in grammar school they need to be banned, including phones with calculator apps.
> This is what happens when children are allowed to use pocket calculators in arithmetic class. <
Bingo. Please see my post #54.
This also what happens when children are not required to learn the times tables, decimal system, fractions, basic algebra and geometry, etc.
You know it’s odd but when I looked at the headline my mind quickly calculated the answer to be 225, weird.
I didn’t realize I had screwed up until I read a few lines of the article.
I’m certainly no genius but I have a BS in Agri-Business and have taken two college level math courses (algebra and calculus} so I’m not an idiot.
I think with that small problem it’s just how some peoples mind works spontaneously at a glance.
But, they don't. They are a very insecure, self-conscious demographic.
I was a top nerd. I had the calculator watch...
Well, then they should at least use the calculator.