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Originally Posted by Busman747
Do you not feel then Gayle, that you benefited at school by being taught how to analyse a problem and come up with an answer step by step? I have never heard of anyone that had their schooling in the 60's/70's with the exception of yourself and the PC clowns that changed the system to be so critical. I would expect it of the youth simply because they are not aware of how effective the old way was.
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Don't get me wrong here, I loved maths and was quite good at it - I could do it quite easily and loved doing the complicated step by step sums. But I do remember sitting there and thinking 'what use will this really be in the real world' and my answer now that I'm in the real world is very little.
Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing should be taught and practiced until people are capable of doing it in their heads - the rest, is just for dressing!