RE: Hardly Anyone Remembers How to do Fractions
January 15, 2017 at 11:12 am
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2017 at 11:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
People prefer (and even back in the day preferred, at least where I went to school) to break them into psuedo percentages easily handled by the more straightforward and intuitive use of decimal points. In the grander scheme of hings, that people don;t do math at all anymore is understandable. When's the last time you worked out an azimuth and built a sundial, rather than glanced down at your digital watch? I told some kid to "work clockwise" and he looked at me like I had a penis growing out of my forehead.
Exotic fractions like those in he op rest firmly in the realm of academic arcanum. People do not find them applicable to their lives, and those things that are applicable are (and have always been) handled by the devices at our disposal. Chances are a previous generation was aghast at your/our inability to do or use some x that they felt was fundamental as well.
Exotic fractions like those in he op rest firmly in the realm of academic arcanum. People do not find them applicable to their lives, and those things that are applicable are (and have always been) handled by the devices at our disposal. Chances are a previous generation was aghast at your/our inability to do or use some x that they felt was fundamental as well.
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