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I encourage you to reconsider. Mental math is essential for having strong numerical fluency, for estimation, and for reasoning about many systems. Those skills
by dwaltrip 2y ago
I encourage you to reconsider.
Mental math is essential for having strong numerical fluency, for estimation, and for reasoning about many systems. Those skills are incredibly useful for thinking critically about the world.
- vonneumannstan 2y agoTo a certain point. Basic arithmetic is important but the ability to calculate large square roots or multiply multi-digit numbers is not very relevant when you can trivially calculate them on your phone in seconds.