Pupils must know all times tables by age 11...children to be tested on their multiplication skills in new exams next year

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They should never have been abandoned, now our government are reinstalling them back into our schools curriculum, good move and while they are doing it they can teach kids how to talk properly, no fink and fort.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/primaryeducation/12078695/Pupils-must-know-all-times-tables-by-age-11.html

Tommy Monk wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:We have more computing power in our heads and need to be shown how to use it.

not for mathematics. people can keep up with the simple things but not once you get more complex and like victor said the slowest thing is the human pressing the keys
no human can match the arithmetic logic unit found in the CPU of even a cheap Chinese smartphone.

where the human brain exceeds is art, language and creativity. we are better with abstract concepts but computers are better with real numbers. the smartest path is to work in synergy with the tools we have created. a Computer is in some ways an intellectual hammer and chisel, it is just another tool that allows us to create things including other tools.. thus the process of technological progress

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/163051-simulating-1-second-of-human-brain-activity-takes-82944-processors


http://www.mindpowernews.com/BrainVsComputer.htm

except most brain activity is just keeping the body running and that is a computer running self and all the computations needed to run a human body.

And it has no bearing on arithmetic which is only a small portion of human brain. only specific parts of the brain can do specific things so the total brain activity is meaningless.

You demonstrate why the method of education you received is so poor. as you are unable to combine information just try and recite stuff you obviously don't actually understand. see how useless learning by rote is

Your artcile from 2013 was sensationalist garbage
while a real one from 2014
Demonstrating in real life how computers are able provide answer to mathematical question humans are unable to physically check because it would take multiple life times
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25068-wikipedia-size-maths-proof-too-big-for-humans-to-check/#.UwTvaXddUZJ

First Nuke to go off over America or Uk or Aussie land and all computers useless. Electronic pulse anyone?

veya_victaous wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:


http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/163051-simulating-1-second-of-human-brain-activity-takes-82944-processors


http://www.mindpowernews.com/BrainVsComputer.htm

except most brain activity is just keeping the body running and that is a computer running self and all the computations needed to run a human body.

And it has no bearing on arithmetic which is only a small portion of human brain. only specific parts of the brain can do specific things so the total brain activity is meaningless.

You demonstrate why the method of education you received is so poor. as you are unable to combine information just try and recite stuff you obviously don't actually understand. see how useless learning by rote is

Your artcile from 2013 was sensationalist garbage
while a real one from 2014
Demonstrating in real life how computers are able provide answer to mathematical question humans are unable to physically check because it would take multiple life times
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25068-wikipedia-size-maths-proof-too-big-for-humans-to-check/#.UwTvaXddUZJ

So we built a great calculator... meh!