[lit-ideas] Re: It has just come to my attention...
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 17:08:05 -0500
I've noticed that "a quarter after" is seldom used anymore, and I'm not
sure how much this impacts the basics of 60 second units per minute, 60
minutes per hour. * *I guess second-hands are obsolete also. I wonder if
stop-watches are all digital now. I've never really had occasion to use
one, as an adult. It must be odd, as a kid, to see these round things
called clocks in various places, that mean nothing to the child.
Julie Krueger
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Ursula Stange <ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've, oddly perhaps, thought about this more than once. A clock face
> makes the mathematical concepts half and quarter so obvious. Surely this
> dawning comes much later if you're telling time by reading numbers. A
> small loss, perhaps, but a loss..........
> U. S.
> in Canada
>
>
> On 2012-08-01, at 4:58 PM, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ...that apparently telling time on an analog face clock is as much a dying
> art as reading cursive. I have an 8 year old student who is *very* bright,
> very precocious, who just finished reading Watership Down for fun. In her
> piano lesson I told her to follow the circle of fifth's clockwise for
> sharps, and counter-clockwise for flats. In response to her baffled look,
> I asked if she knew what clockwise and counter-clockwise meant. No... I
> drew her a clock face with the numerals on it. Oh! Comprehension dawned.
> "We have those in all the rooms in our school!" "Do they teach you how to
> tell time?" "No...I know how to tell time from clocks like that (pointing
> to a digital clock on my desk)...".
>
> Julie Krueger
> feeling very obsolete
>
>
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