Am 20.08.2011 14:30, schrieb Orchid XP v8:
>>> Seriously. If you know how it works, do you really need to do it 200
>>> times over just to *prove* that you know how it works?
>>
>> Wrong, it's not to prove that it works. It is to drum into your "thick
>> little head" how to do it with out thinking. Compare it to repeating a
>> dance step until your body does not think of the individual moves. Then
>> you can build on it.
>
> Doing arithmetic "without thinking" is how we ended up with Verizon Math
> Fail.

The trick is to do the thinking part on such smart questions as "is that 
cents or dollars?", rather than on such boring arithmetical questions as 
"how much is 1 divided by 100?".

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