Re: unnatural languages

On Mar 14, 5:56 pm, hru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin) wrote:
In article <1173839013.299984.50...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter T. Daniels <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 13, 7:41 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 13 Mar 2007 14:58:26 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
<gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
That's the generation that can't add, subtract, multiply,
or divide without a calculator.
Later generations are significantly worse, simply because
calculators are now ubiquitous.
Can you point to a cohort raised on Cuisinaire Rods that
_can_ do its ciphering without a calculater? or at least
an abacus?

<> I can't point to a cohort raised on Cuisenaire rods, which
<> in any case were not a fundamental part of the 'new math'.
<> I also can't point to a cohort that can reliably do
<> arithmetic without a calculator, especially if it involves
<> fractions, and my students range from late teens on up, with
<> quite a few in their 40s or older.

<Well, we graduated from high school in 1968, and we certainly could do
<all that.

SOME could.

No, we all could.

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