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| On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 13:34:20 -0600 "RAUBER, JOEL"
| <Joel.Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU> writes:
| > ........... I think today's students can be expected to find
the
| square root of 9 or 16 in their head. And to take 8 and
| divide by 2 in their head.
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| *** But students do not calculate such things "in their head"
| . No calculation is necessary in such cases. It is merely a
| matter of memory.
|
Isn't all calculation ultimately reduced to memorized procedures?