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A lot of comments already, but I'll just make two points: 1. I suspect that a lot of what's being trained in handwriting classes is not just the ability to mak
by hugh 18y ago
A lot of comments already, but I'll just make two points:
1. I suspect that a lot of what's being trained in handwriting classes is not just the ability to make legible versions of the 26 letters of the English alphabet, but rather general skills of hand positioning and fine motor control. Kids need to pick these skills up one way or another.
2. Regardless of whether you can "take notes" with a keyboard just as well as you can with a pen and pad, I'm pretty sure it's damn near impossible to do complicated mathematics without a pen and pad. Or a blackboard.
- DabAsteroid 18y agoI'm pretty sure it's damn near impossible to do complicated mathematics without a pen and pad. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295110 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295110 I [Thad Starner] get much more down than anybody writing on pen and paper, because you can write, at maximum, about 25 words per minute. I can type 70. So I am much more complete in my notes. I also type LaTeX math notation. So that means if you have something highly technical, you will get book-quality-formatted notes out of me.
- hugh 18y agoI'm talking about doing mathematics, not just taking down the notation. Sure, I can type LaTeX too, but once I've typed an equation it still looks like a mess. The structure isn't obvious. It's not intuitively obvious how to eliminate some terms and rearrange it, the way it would be if I were writing it down longhand.
- DabAsteroid 18y agoWould I be correct in supposing that you tried Mathematica?