of about thirty couldn't add this sum up without the help of a calculator, not wishing to boast but I'm 73 and had added this up in my head before he had pressed the buttons on the calculator.They try to tell us education is better than it used to be, doesn't this show how badly we have fallen behind with our educational standards?
2007-05-11 11:16:11 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I agree, but we are not all perfect
2007-05-11 11:19:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take one person of 73 and one person of about 30, if the person of 73 is better at maths than the person of 30 then ALL people of 30 must be less well educated than those who are 73.
You might be good at mental arithmetic but your inability to construct a logical arguement whilst at the same time drawing conclusions from very limited data (in this case two people) means that science probably wasn't your strong point.
2007-05-11 11:25:52 · answer #2 · answered by Harry Callaghan 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well although most of us could do it in our heads, you must admit that occasionally one makes mistakes... so he probably used the calculator to eliminate that possibility. AFter all, you only have your own shopping to total, but he will have had countless customers shopping to add up and he will have been doing it all day!! He will become v.tired by the end of the day as thus might be even more inclined to make mistakes!!
its commendable that you are still fully compos mentis at 73 tho!
2007-05-11 11:24:05 · answer #3 · answered by Chimera's Song 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the calculator that's the problem. When I were a lad and you could have a good night out, a fish supper and your bus fare home for fourpence ha'penny, I could work out percentage discounts in my head and that was for pounds, shillings and pence - none of this namby pamby decimal nonsense. Then along came the electronic calculator and within about a week, I couldn't add up the toes on my feet.
2007-05-11 12:14:44 · answer #4 · answered by Jellicoe 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You may be right; I think that a little mental arithmetic is good to engage in.
But I don't think that this anecdote really demonstrates anything, in that we have been used to calculators being around for some time. To be fair on the shop assistant, you were adding only your own goods, you're not adding-up all day long.
People used to more commonly wash everything by hand, but my washing machine does not represent a drop in clean clothes standards.
2007-05-11 14:12:12 · answer #5 · answered by L 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
73? You dont look it. I totally agree. Most of my clients cant spell correctly, dont know how to add up, have no idea how to conduct a phone conversation. I think they have concentrated a little too much on the 'learn through play' ideas of the 70s and technology. Whats the point of using 'tinterweb if you cant read or understand what you find? tsk tsk.
PS Mr Insane....we used to do calculus, algebra and trigonometry without calculators when I was a lad.
2007-05-11 11:22:04 · answer #6 · answered by jeanimus 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, yes and no. There will always be slow people. I'm 33, and I often feel the same way. It used to pain me when I bought a milkshake for 80p and a packet of crisps for 35p off of the trolley at work, and the girl had to use a calculator to work it out...really slowly!
2007-05-11 11:19:53 · answer #7 · answered by John W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-27 19:35:50 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It certainly does.Watching some guys play darts in a pub the other day.I had to bite my tongue watching them try to add up.Must
say old timer.Your looking well for 73.Whats the secret?
2007-05-11 11:22:28 · answer #9 · answered by Butt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had that experience in an off license....
3x75p....the young assisstant grabbed the calculator turned to the manager and said ...set it up for me!!!
I would have cried.....but I laughed!!!
2007-05-11 11:27:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well when you were a child the answers were beaten into you...your not liable to forget that
nowadays the teachers are all soft
im only in grammar school but i say
bring back the cane
2007-05-11 11:22:20 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋