[geeks] Why? i.e. why do people have such poor math &

[dave at cca.org]

lists at pellucidar.net writes:

>The best teacher I ever had was one of the electronics teachers I had at
>the local community college.  (He gave up designing satellite power
>supplies to teach at a CC, raise llamas and run a bed and breakfast,
>really weird guy)  But one of the things he strove very hard to teach
>was the automatic ballparking of results, as a separate thing from
>calculating or measuring.  

Definately. That was one of the arguments against moving from
slide rules to calculators.

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