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In reply to the discussion: The 50's, 60's and 70's were the golden age of education in this country [View all]kimbutgar
(21,126 posts)47. Same thing has happened to me in stores they can't add or subtract in their heads
I worked at a movie theatre concession stand and we had to add in our heads customers orders and give change. I was lousy at math but I got better real quick figuring out ways to quickly add the numbers. I remember learning different strategies to do math in school that came back to me. Nowadays kids could not do this.
And I taught a 8 year old cousin a multiplication strategy recently and he asked me to show it to again and he got it.
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The 50's, 60's and 70's were the golden age of education in this country [View all]
kimbutgar
Jul 2014
OP
Yes, a lot of it depends on what area you lived in. I lived in a poor county in a poor state.
raccoon
Jul 2014
#40
Helped in their own climb to the top, they then pulled the ladder up after themselves.
Octafish
Jul 2014
#18
I remember having Home Economics in the 70s ,cooking class and sewing class in middle school.
SummerSnow
Jul 2014
#27
Well, from what I have heard on the street corner, the 1920s to early 1930s was best. That is when
Hestia
Jul 2014
#31
And news media. Pick up a TIME from those years and weep at the lost content today.
WinkyDink
Jul 2014
#37
Corporations no longer "need" Americans--either as consumers or as workers. That simple. nt
Romulox
Jul 2014
#42
Same thing has happened to me in stores they can't add or subtract in their heads
kimbutgar
Jul 2014
#47