[lit-ideas] Re: It has just come to my attention...
- From: Ursula Stange <ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 20:28:04 -0400
I'm sure there are already many young'uns who can't make heads or tails (and
what will happen to that notion when all money is rectangular and plastic?) out
of the fights in Star Wars for that reason.
On 2012-08-01, at 6:36 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I expect many losses in aerial dogfights on the sides of those who
> are no longer able to say, 'Maverick, there's a Mig at 11 o'clock!
>
>
>> 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..........
>>
>> On 2012-08-01, at 4:58 PM, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto: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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