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Originally Posted by jaysay
My other half has invigilated for the GCSE exams at here local secondary school for the last five or six years and it astounded me when I heard that kids are allowed to take calculators into exams  the only thing we were afforded was logarithms back in my day |
I remember getting my first Casio Scientific Calculator back in 1976 (from Wardleworths), it took me through many exams, I still have it and it works perfectly. We had lessons on how to use it correctly. We also had to learn to use a slide-rule. At junior school maths was split into "Mental Arithmetic" and "Mechanical Arithmetic" - do you remember that J? I always remember a fantastic line out of the "Liverbirds" -where Polly (can't remember the surname!) says that whenever they mentioned Mental Arithmetic at school she used to wet her knickers!!
By the was,I apologise if i got a bit hot under the collar in my last post but it really gets to me when you see bright young people throwing away opportunities...