when they bump jeopardy for the daily White House press briefing and you can’t decide which you’re more annoyed at - the shift of your favorite programming or that orange head showing up again on your tv
You're old the first time you want to build a time machine so you can go back in time and slap your younger self.
I'm so old.
Calculators being new, yeah, I remember that. Wow, huh?
I watched last Sunday's episode of Fargo and there was a brief scene in which a child was doing long division. (This is set in 1950.) Do kids still learn long division in the Age of Calculators? I mean, every device everywhere seems to have a calculator function or app. Or did long division join cursive writing in the Quaint and Retired Curricula?
Maryn, genuinely curious
As to not teaching manual math, this is plain stupid: what happens if their device runs out of battery-life, or they are (OMG) stuck somewhere without a device?
Some people will be reduced to pulling their socks off, to include in their counting.
When will the educational system realize that knowledge, not efficiency, is the point of education?
I suppose it announces my age that I remember the entire class reciting times tables in unison. (And wearing a dress to school!) Rote memorization worked--we did up to six in one grade, then seven through ten in the next grade, where the teacher did not use this method. To this day, I'm weak on seven, eight, or nine times anything.
This might be the right thread to announce that yesterday Mr. Maryn and I completed our hiking of the Wiouwash trail in the last four or five weeks, out and back, total distance 45 miles. Despite his hip and both my knees, we kept going.
Maryn, old but not infirm