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COF comments on current math teaching methods

' . . . who knows what we might have been capable of iffen we had the advantages of modern pedagogy? - The COF

By the COF
Personal commentary; opinions expressed herein are his'n, and not necessarily those the University of Knifley

Amazing whut new-fangled ideas these edjicated folks keep coming up with! Thar's abslutely no doubt in my mind thet this here automaticity program will be a boon for the young uns.



'Course back in the day (Before New Math and other idiocity) us ols folks were stuck with ole fashioned Rote Learning. Why iffen we had automaticity instead of Rote, who knows whut wonders we might have been capable of? Why we might have even been able to get a man up to the moon to stroll around for a time. Course those of us who had no benefit from Set Theory, Number bases, Functions and Venn diagrams are forever stuck with being limited to such mundane thangs as being able to make change without a computer, figure the square area of a rectangle room, convert "klicks" to miles and so on all in our heads. who knows what we might have been capable of iffen we had the advantages of modern pedagogy

By the by - Kin one of these new wave folks 'splain to poor un-edjicated COF jest what the difference is twix Automaticity en Rote?

-COF at Dun Roman
High o'er beautiful Downtown Knifley Whar the answer is never: a member of the set which is the intersection of the set of those numbers which is larger than 6 and the set of numbers which are smaller than 9' --COF

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