Re The next generation post

After reading Texasmark1 comment on the next generation post I felt it fitting to post this to show there is still hope for the next generation.

quote="Texasmark1"](quoted from post at 06:42:38 06/20/18) How about you hand $21.57 to a FF cashier for a $6.57 tab......the blank looks......Oh I forgot, the computer in the register does the thinking for the correct change.[/quote]

Not all of the current generation is like that but I have encountered many like you described.

Although they hated us for it for a little while we never let our kids use calculators when they were in school.
After a while they got so good at doing math in their heads they could come up with the right answer faster than classmates could enter the numbers into a calculator.
Both of them graduated with honors with distinction and the younger one that graduated last year has been asked to be in attendance at this years graduation ceremonies next week as he will be presented with the Governor General award for academics. (highest marks out of all the students for grade 11+12)
The award is always presented the year following graduation as the final marks are not in prior to the ceremonies being held.

Too many gadgets out there that seem to extinguish a lot of peoples desire to develop the ability to think for themselves.

Nice to see some of the old school skills still being used and mastered ...... good basic math skills are invaluable and congratulations to
the kids. Meanwhile though, we cannot deny or ignore "progress" (some might not agree with that word being used in a positive way). For
example, things like decent legible handwriting is becoming extinct (almost). While a lot of us might criticize the brutal handwriting skills
of the many in the current generation of kids, how many hand-written letters or communication have any of us written lately? How do we do it
..... keyboarding or email or texting, etc. That's what they call progress I guess .....

(quoted from post at 07:31:31 06/20/18) After reading Texasmark1 comment on the next generation post I felt it fitting to post this to show there is still hope for the next generation.

quote="Texasmark1"](quoted from post at 06:42:38 06/20/18) How about you hand $21.57 to a FF cashier for a $6.57 tab......the blank looks......Oh I forgot, the computer in the register does the thinking for the correct change.

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Not all of the current generation is like that but I have encountered many like you described.

Although they hated us for it for a little while we never let our kids use calculators when they were in school.
After a while they got so good at doing math in their heads they could come up with the right answer faster than classmates could enter the numbers into a calculator.
Both of them graduated with honors with distinction and the younger one that graduated last year has been asked to be in attendance at this years graduation ceremonies next week as he will be presented with the Governor General award for academics. (highest marks out of all the students for grade 11+12)
The award is always presented the year following graduation as the final marks are not in prior to the ceremonies being held.

Too many gadgets out there that seem to extinguish a lot of peoples desire to develop the ability to think for themselves.[/quote]

LOL this is funny cause I've seen many people my age (63) and older who can't make change either!

And really? What's the cents (pun intended)? You owe 6.57 and had the cashier 21.57 all they have to due is enter 21.57 as the amount tendered and the register does the rest. No critical thinking needed. And the reason that kids are not taught how to make change is two fold. One they are pushing these kids to go to college so allegedly they won't be running a till (unless of course they major in the arts, social sciences and or womens studies, with those degrees they will be behind a till). And 2: the till does it for you! It comes up with amount due, you enter amount tendered and it tells you how much money to return to the customer. So all you have to be able to do is count. Why teach something that's no longer used? Every time someone says well what would happen.....heck if those "things" happened it wouldn't matter, it would either get fixed or people would learn.

Rick

Skills needed come and go especially these days when technology is moving fast and I'll say I sure don't keep up.But how many people of any age these days could harness a
horse and go cultivate the garden with the horse hooked to a triple shovel plow darn few but my grandmother would have thought anyone not capable of that small task to her would be dumb as a fence post.So it goes.You want to really feel ignorant go to a library and start in on some engineering books or books about chemistry.Actually the more they know the more the average person realizes what little they do know.