Basics of mathematical thinking? You mean problem solving?
Damn. Imagine wanting to work for a society that treats you like this.
While it wouldn't surprise me at all for this to be true, I'm not going to take Israeli testimonies at face-value.
They just have a history of lying to make their enemies look bad, so I consider that history whenever there's no objective evidence.
Same reason I wouldn't trust Russian testimonies at face-value.
Money > environment
The ruling class will be fine. It's everyone else who will suffer.
Blame everyone who thought the disparity in wealth should grow instead of shrink.
I think we should go back to abacuses and sundials.
You might not always have paper and pencil.
I always had subtitles on when playing video games as a kid.
It really enhanced my reading comprehension and writing.
I was one of the kids in school who said that and it turned out to be true.
Reading, on the other hand, was very important to me. As well as history.
I don't really consider doing arithmetic to be important for lawyers.
If you can use a calculator, all you need to do is understand the very simple concepts. This applies to the vast majority of people who use math in their everyday lives.
“why did they change this!?”
It's funny, as a child learning 'old math', I always thought "is this the only way to do it? Why are we doing it this way?"
Glad people are finding alternatives instead of just getting tunnel-visioned into doing what we've always done.
In what world do you think children have fewer resources at their disposal now than they did decades ago?
Probably the end of the first episode after the credits.