Originally posted by 98 SE:
I'm not sure the advantage they were put in was effective in learning the material, since the profs didn't require you to do the work longhand.
my point exactly. when i took a refresher course in college to meet the general ed requirements i was regularly the one of the last ones done because i refused to use a calculator while everyone else had the big fancy graphing calculators with all the necessary functions and crap needed for the test already programed in the night before. i was also one of the few who could actually do the math the old fashioned way.
on a side note, when i was a little boy and i started helping gramps in the family business (tagging along is probably more accurate) he demanded i do the addition in my head without using fingers or pen and paper. i have never seen anyone do math faster or more accurately than he did. when we were young sometimes we would grab a calculator and try to beat him to the answer. he was in his seventies before he lost.
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