Elementary

February 8, 2010
8:26 P.M.
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I blame myself. It's all my own fault that I am taking this algebra class. I could kick myself for not trying just a little bit harder on that CPT. I sat in a classroom tonight, incredulous at the questions being asked of our professor. I was in a room full of young people who didn't have the slightest concept of multiplication of decimals or long division. These were subjects covered in elementary school, for crying out loud! We spent fifteen minutes working out a problem that a ten year old of forty years ago would have known the answer to just by looking at it. Technology is a good thing. It has aided the world in making strides in every facet of life, but sitting there tonight, I cursed the calculator and every parent and/or teacher that allowed a child to use one before they ever learned the basic, all important concepts of mathematics.