Re: [Mid] OT - This is SO weird!!

>Turns out, he understood everything - but couldn't add,
>subtrace or multiply worth a damn.

>(If you can't do math, you'd hate slide rules. I was
>good in math - and still hated slide rules. Then calculators
>came onto the market in mass - after I'd already graduated
>from college. <sigh> ONe wonders, one does.)

This may sound odd, but there is more to mathematics than doing
addition and subtraction.

Can you do logic problems? Congrats, you are doing math. Cartography?
Mathematics. :)

You honestly don't have to add to not be able to do math. But, I get
the point. There are probably people out there (and here on the
Bridge) who have the same problems with adding in a manner similar to
a dyslexic has with reading (similar, not exact).

I guess I just get nervous when people say math is hard. I'm always
thinking a child is reading this, and will take that phrase as an
"okay" to not try learning math.

- C
From: "Charles J. Cohen" <charles@mynah.eecs.umich.edu>
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