15th
February
2014
Calculations in the real world
Here we are. Half a century after my first contact with math as a useful tool, and I’m still depending on the calculation abilities of the Internet. Remember those word problems that kept one challenged intellectually in Grade Four? Stuff like “What is the volume of a cylinder, measuring three inches in diameter and six feet in length?? No need to convert this to metric; the volume is a constant. Or a variable. That math class was a long time ago.
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