New Math vs. Old Math (Page 14): Try teaching them Military time based on a 24 hour clock.

bodiebill

DickC wrote:

I agree, as a math major (1956) I watch my own grandkids, they can't tell the time without looking on their cellphones! The 'New Math'? Good Lord, I don't see how they think this is better than the traditional??

Try teaching them Military time based on a 24 hour clock.

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

bodiebill wrote:

Try teaching them Military time based on a 24 hour clock.

Or the multiplication tables without a calculator!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

DickC wrote:

I agree, as a math major (1956) I watch my own grandkids, they can't tell the time without looking on their cellphones! The 'New Math'? Good Lord, I don't see how they think this is better than the traditional??

And how about giving change at the register without the register spelling it out?

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

jerryc41 wrote:

And how about giving change at the register without the register spelling it out?

Exactly!!

bodiebill

jerryc41 wrote:

And how about giving change at the register without the register spelling it out?

I watched a teenage checkout girl break down and cry when the customer gave her $5.12 when the bill was $1.12 expecting $4 in change. She panicked over the math when the cash register did not tell her how much.

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

bodiebill wrote:

I watched a teenage checkout girl break down and cry when the customer gave her $5.12 when the bill was $1.12 expecting $4 in change. She panicked over the math when the cash register did not tell her how much.

I've heard and seen of these things. I have a step son who is in his 50s that can not read a clock! He has to have a digital clock, and he can't write cursive! As your post above, this generation is going backward!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

DickC wrote:

I've heard and seen of these things. I have a step son who is in his 50s that can not read a clock! He has to have a digital clock, and he can't write cursive! As your post above, this generation is going backward!

And schools aren't teaching cursive writing anymore. That should make for interesting PRINTED SIGNATURES.

Actually, adults could use script as code so the kids don't know what they're writing.

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

jerryc41 wrote:

And schools aren't teaching cursive writing anymore. That should make for interesting PRINTED SIGNATURES.

Actually, adults could use script as code so the kids don't know what they're writing.

Our culture has become one-handed; one to do tasks with and the other to carry their cell-phone!