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Originally Posted by mobertol
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... |
Evidently I'm a tad older than you mobertol as it was just plain maths in my day
and it was Polly James, her mother and father lived in Havelock Street in Ossy, saw her in the Stop and Rest in Ossy, in the seventies, with here parents having.