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Originally Posted by rat
The problems lie in the education system we have--both in the schools and in the homes. We begin children along the path to shortcuts in life early, without teaching them the long way of anything, be it cooking on a stove or oven, or writing complete words out online.
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Agreed, I also apologise, I didn't mean to read something into your post that wasn't there.
So is it the education system that is to blame for my numeracy problems? Could be. By the time I finished secondary education, my mental arithmetic abilities had faded to nothing. I was reliant on a scientific calculator. Armed with that, I could do the problems. Without it, I was lost.
I was taught how to do it all longhand (and I'm the same generation as you Rat), but by the age of 11, it was just gone. And you know what? I've barely missed it.