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Re:Poll: How much calculation work should be taught in schools? by wisty on Monday February 14, 2011 @03:42AM (#2215964)
Please add "bring back the slide rule". I've never used one, but I think graphical techniques (including the use of slide rules - multiplication can be done by addition if you use logs) helps you get a better feel for maths.

Programming is a separate subject. Computer driven data-analysis is also a separate art to mathematics, though a maths background helps understand it. But these aren't core maths.

"Computers are useless. They can only give answers" - Pablo Picasso

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