Sacha wrote:
[i]
On 2011-01-30 15:54:34 +0000, Rusty Hinge
said:
kay wrote:
Bill Grey;911046 Wrote:
"kay" wrote in message
...
I'd happily settle for less ability to multiply numbers together in
ones
head in exchange for greater understanding of what the numbers
actually
say, and therefore a greater ability to separate scientific argument
from opinion and quackery.
But one has to start somewhere!
But I think learning times tables by rote up to 12 x 12 is the wrong
place to start!
And as someone who did so, I think it's the right place to start.
Hear, hear. But Kay's younger than me so we probably look at things
rather differently.
She must be older than I then, TAAAW.
*I* unforget some of the songs we sang at school - the ones telling that
naughty Mr. Hitler what to do.
And it's next best to certain that I saw operational, one of the present
Battle of Britain Flight's Spitfires - it spent all its (wartime) flying
life at RAF Hornchurch, and I lived in that vicinity a year before it
flew off the line.
--
Rusty