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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[b] all by myself[/b].[/quote]

That's the magic word.  Some kids are not math minded.  They cannot teach themselves number sense "all by themselves".   I am the PP who taught myself how to use the 10 strategy.    I am a math-minded person, but I know there are lots of non-math minded people who can't "figure out math", let alone at a young age.

And btw, some mcps teachers do teach cursive, of which I am grateful for.  Writing is still important. I work in IT.  When someone is drawing a diagram on the white board to explain something, I need to be able to read their writing.  Some of the guys in IT have such bad writing, I can't read it. It's not in cursive, but even their print is bad.

Same with analog clocks. Why teach it to them since we have digital clocks everywhere.. computer, phone, cable set top box... I still think it's valuable, and it helps teach math.[/quote]

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