I do not disagree with your main point. However,
> To use the
>calculator or the computer to do calculations that should be easily
>accessible by the human mind is to use a howitzer to kill a fly.
To use the human mind for so mindless as task as calculation is to use a
gold communion paten (ask your Catholic friends) to shovel horse manure.
Yes, of course, everybody should be able to do simple calculation without
electronic or mechanical aids (and I include pencil and paper among these
aids); but more students would numbers better if they spent more time
actually working with numbers instead of learning to perform artificial
and meaningless tasks.
Road's in front o' me,
Nothin' to do but walk.
Langston Hughes
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