Posted by JD Seller on May 08, 2016 at 08:43:29 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: o/t at the sale posted by larry@stinescorner on May 08, 2016 at 04:58:57:
Larry Two points of views on this post.
1) The girl used a calculator for a simple math problem. Well many schools are letting/making the kids use calculators at young ages so very little "math" basics are learned anymore. My youngest grand kids are NOT taught division at school. They are give a calculator to divide anything. Long division with the decimal point has not been taught for over ten years. So the young girl is part of a generation that has been schooled to use machines for a very simple task from a young age.
2) The young girl is working, which is getting rare. She got your you order correctly and in a timely manner. She even double checked the order that she wrote down. I would hire her in a minute. Many are too smart to work and defiantly not going to check their work to make it right.
P.S. My Father was a walking calculator. He could do multiplication of up to five digit number faster than you could run them through a calculator. He did spend some time with my sons. About two years ago they where working on a welding project in the shop and they needed to figure the hypotenuse of a triangle to make a truss/brace. My Father was there and rattled off his answer. They used that and built the rest of the truss. Later when we went to install i9t we found out he was "off" by more than an inch. It took us another two hours to rebuild the truss. I told them to not trust their own mental math and NEVER trust my Father's anymore, on things that had to be exact. They make fun of me using my flip phone as a calculator all of the time. I do estimates in my head but double check them with a calculator. I can do all the require math with pen and paper but usually do not have them handy.
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