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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
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Subject: Re: Becoming CAI literate
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Date: 25 Feb 88 02:50:12 GMT
References: <26@dogie.edu> <3340@killer.UUCP> <1988Feb19.204048.3727@utzoo.uucp> <3319@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
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Summary: various timepiece skills

In article <3319@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, jjboritz@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim Boritz) writes:
> In article <1988Feb19.204048.3727@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> >Once it was the mark of an educated man that he could tell time by the sun,
> >without mechanical assistance.  Can you?
> >-- 
> 
> To take this a little further...
> A useful skill that children developed was to read the time by the
> position of the big hand and the little hand.  The proliferation of
> cheap digital watches has almost eliminated this ability.  
> -- 
> Jim Boritz			jjboritz@watcgl.waterloo.edu



  There may be a new skill being developed - one which I find difficult.
This is the ability to judge a time span from a glance or two at the face
of the wristwatch or clock.  I can just glance at my watch and tell about
how much time I have left until the end of lunch hour/the lecture/whatever.
That is, I can do this unless the watch is one of the digital types.  (And
it gets really bad when the period does not end on an even hour.)

  Maybe our children will develop wonderful arithmetical skill from 
trying to tell if they are late for their favorite TV program?  :-)
(This might take care of addition/subtraction - now what about 
multiplication/division?)

--henry schaffer  n c state univ