31-07-2006, 17:15
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Always EVIL within us
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Re: The Education System
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Originally Posted by Gayle
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!
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This is exactly what I was saying at the start of the thread Gayle, forget logs and cosigns, mental arithmetic is ALL important but the schools quite often "skip over" the basics now, hence the girl that was unable to give me the correct change simply because her till didn't "tell" her what to pay back.
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