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Old 12-08-2022, 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Two Bills View Post
My grandson loves math.
I can't even understand any of the stuff he does.
Kids today are so far in front of where we were at same age.
I was a bit thick anyway, but I knew how to work out my hours and wages!
I was on the board of a few schools in NY. I felt they were going the wrong way as far as teaching math went. In grade school, instead of providing the actual answer, they were being asked to estimate the answer. There is no estimate in math. There is one correct answer.