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In reply to the discussion: British schools are removing analog clocks from classrooms because kids can't read them [View all]lastlib
(23,366 posts)102. They do math just fine? Ask one of them to make change without a calculator......
I bought a burger & fries for $6.64 recently. In my pocket I had four pennies; I took a five-dollar bill and two ones, and I added the four pennies. You would've thought I had asked that girl at the register to solve Fermat's last theorem! For the life of her, she couldn't figure out that I had given her $7.04, and should get back 40 cents in change!
More than that, I am simply astounded at the inability of many younger folks to do rough mental arithmetic. They just can't do it! They have to pull out a cell phone, open the calculator app, and punch it in (and they still can't get correct answers because they lack the concept of order of operations).
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British schools are removing analog clocks from classrooms because kids can't read them [View all]
mfcorey1
May 2018
OP
If only there was a place kids could go to be schooled in such skills. n/t
PoliticAverse
May 2018
#1
Yes, if you want to see "at a glance" how close you are to the next hour an analog clock display...
PoliticAverse
May 2018
#132
They do math just fine? Ask one of them to make change without a calculator......
lastlib
May 2018
#102
The problem with the change thing, giving the cashier the change or even just part of it,
PoindexterOglethorpe
May 2018
#107
I am teaching my daughter...she learned to read a clock years ago I am sure but has never used it
Demsrule86
May 2018
#150
Yeah for how long will cursive and analog clocks be around...I was forced to use a slide rule by a
Demsrule86
May 2018
#154
All the spent fuel pools would eventually lose power and become radioactive infernos.
roamer65
May 2018
#164
I can attest that writing longhand boosts creativity. See my post on that. nt
Blue_true
May 2018
#51
After years of being an engineer, I started writing fictional novels during free time.
Blue_true
May 2018
#49
I found that I think easier and can tolerate distractions better when I do first drafts freehand.
Blue_true
May 2018
#166
++ see post 54 . We taught it at home to all and if the teachers allow it, they use it for any
lunasun
May 2018
#61
Because knowledge is power. Because not everyone lives in a digital world. Because...
Guilded Lilly
May 2018
#79
No, hardly any. How many people have to wind up clocks as part of their job these days?
muriel_volestrangler
May 2018
#121
Christ, I taught myself how to read an analog clock when I was maybe five or six years old
Downtown Hound
May 2018
#40
Began noticing kids weren't learning to tell time on analog clocks in early 70s
bobbieinok
May 2018
#42
For all those saying "well, teach them" - it is taught, in Year One, but this is 10 years later
muriel_volestrangler
May 2018
#48
Teacher asked our uoungest not to turn in work in cursive . He tokd her oh my parents wanted
lunasun
May 2018
#54
Seriously? I taught my kids how to read a clock as soon as they learned their numbers.
Laffy Kat
May 2018
#56
What's really shocking is that today's kids don't know how to use an astrolabe
DavidDvorkin
May 2018
#72
So when they're watching old movies with clocks in them and knowing the time is
betsuni
May 2018
#74
Post hoc ergo propter hoc, or maybe the inverse, or some-fallacy, or something?
RockRaven
May 2018
#95
They couldn't teach them in like 5 minutes? They must have stupid teachers and/or students! nt
doc03
May 2018
#100
Just to confuse things more, in German, the 'half' is *before* the next hour
muriel_volestrangler
May 2018
#147
What I wish is that we could teach people here to read the article before posting
Blue_Adept
May 2018
#125
It's a bad article too, which has suffered from being an indirect report
muriel_volestrangler
May 2018
#141
My own daughter can't tell time with a regular clock! She is the baby of the family. I don't know
Demsrule86
May 2018
#149