21st February 2006, 5:56 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...01989.html
It's all well and good that this person has decided he can get something else to do his math for him, and has decided that calculating something so simple as HIGH SCHOOL ALGEBRA is just too hard and pointless. However, who does he think makes those calculators and computers? If kids are given half a chance, they won't be learning math at all, and we'll get a nation of dullards. Oh right...
It's all well and good that this person has decided he can get something else to do his math for him, and has decided that calculating something so simple as HIGH SCHOOL ALGEBRA is just too hard and pointless. However, who does he think makes those calculators and computers? If kids are given half a chance, they won't be learning math at all, and we'll get a nation of dullards. Oh right...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)