I have a maths problem for you

[Foxaèr]

How do we remove it from the school curriculum?

[Anomalocaris]

Is it in our school curriculum?

[no one]

You don't think this will add to the problem? Subtracting from our youths future can only multiply the issues while further separating the divide.

[polymath257]

It already has been removed for all I can tell. Up here at the university, most students don't know how to do arithmetic without a calculator. This hurts them in calculus and above.

And don't get me started on long division.

[brewer]

How do we remove it from the school curriculum?

Change the name to 'cypher' Jethro.

[Brian37]

It already has been removed for all I can tell. Up here at the university, most students don't know how to do arithmetic without a calculator. This hurts them in calculus and above.

And don't get me started on long division.

I had calculus once, but I went to the doctor, got a shot for it, and it cleared up.

[HappySkeptic]

Math is awesome. Even long-division is cool for understanding the workings of numbers (though it will never be used in later life). I even learned the technique for doing square-roots in grade 3.

When my in elementary school brought home their math problems, I was aghast at how things have deteriorated. Everything was sentence answer, not actually calculating anything.

Question: Answer in a sentence why the number 99 is larger than the number 50.

Answer: The number 99 has more "10s" in it than the number 50.

Arghhhhhhh!!!!