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I don't mean they use calculators in school -- [b]I mean why bother teaching them various ways to work it out in their heads when they will have 24/7 access to a calculator[/b]? what a waste of time. Just teach them how to do the addition and subtraction and be done with it. [/quote]

Why? Because the purpose of math education is to teach kids to understand math.[/quote]

I thought the purpose of it was to teach them to do math.....[/quote]

No, it's not. It's to understand math. Up to a point, you can do math without understanding math, but after that, you're stuck.[/quote]

That's not how I learned. I learned how to DO the math. We were taught to add subtract and multiply a certain way on paper. We memorized the multiplication tables. I could do the math long before I "got" the math, and I learned how to do it in my head all by myself.[/quote]

Yes, and that's why the current math teaching methods are better -- because they emphasize understanding, not just the application of mathemagical formulas.[/quote]

Mathemagical -- isn't that calculators in a nutshell?[/quote]

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