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Originally Posted by Daradon
To be fair the curriculum has changed quite a bit since then. I remember having to get a graphing calculator for high school. The teachers aren't worried if you know your basic facts, because you already should. They just want to see if you can properly work through problems. If you don't know the equations you should use, or how to simplify them it doesn't matter what you plug into your calculator, your still wrong.
Not to say you guys didn't have to do algebra or trig like that, just that math courses have changed, and I dare say, gotten more complex in 50 years.
Sadly, I will agree there are still some kids (and adults)who can't do their basic facts. I always had fun with those. But like spell check, I guess it's something that machines have taken over.
Anyone who is serious about math will know their basic facts. Just like anyone who is serious about writing will know how to spell.
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How old do you think I am?
By the time I hit high school we were no longer doing calculations using dino droppings and actually had taken trig and calculus courses if we chose to.
Physics was a bear though because part of the test was re-enacting apples falling from a tree onto our head.
It was a real b$$tch in the winter because the old man always got upset when we took our coal shovel to school so we'd have something to write on.