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NEW TOPIC - EDUCATION - 2 |
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12/27/06
Anne (Dunn) Causey
(1972)
Adcinsc@aol.com
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Hey Guys & Gals -
This is in response to:12/15/06 FORMER MAVAHI STUDENT
Whats your next topic for your next paper ?? LOL
HA HA . . . how about education? Is it me, or has anyone else noticed that when your kids went to take math tests they were REQUIRED to have a calculator??? Hello? Didn't that defeat the whole purpose?
I remember when my husband and I were first married and the family would go on vacations, our oldest would "quiz" my husband and myself. Extremely difficult questions like "What is 144 - 98? He would have the calculator, and we'd always pop up with the right answer, by doing it in our head. This astonished the very young child (all of 10) . . . and yet, when I was 10, I knew how to add and subtract "in my head".
Has anyone else noticed how education seems to rely more on electronics, than the brain? Thoughts?
Anne - oh, and Merry Christmas Everyone!
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