Greg Troutman wrote:
> Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> > Computers are a part of life and M$ stuff is unfortunatly reality we live
> > with every day. The unfortunate part is I meet kids at the grocer that
> > play doom, surf the net and can't count change.
>
> Well, the clerk behind the counter may not be able to either, as the
> machine does all the work for them ;) I remember those machines that
> spit out the coinage part of your change appearing back in the
> late-60's.
And it's not the technology thaqt makes them that way either - it's the trade
off of using the machine to actually do the mental work instead of knowing how
by hand first and then using the technology to enhance and speed up the
knowledge. My buddy pulled his daughter out of the local public school over a
dispute of using calculators in FIRST grade when the kids didn't even know how
to do most of the work in their heads or longhand. He put her into a Catholic
school here and she can use the calculator AFTER she's good enough with the
actual math by herself.
Remember when the LED HP calculators were banned from high schools and
considered cheating? My best friend was suspended over just the possession of
one in school, not even in class. Of course he's a few years younger than I as
I don't remember calculators being much less than the price of a good used car
when I was in school. They came down dramatically in 76 when I was going
through electronics training. I think the one I had cost $105 then and we
thought that was cheap.
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Received on Wed May 13 1998 - 14:17:39 BST