{"id":278,"date":"2007-10-17T18:31:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T00:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2007-10-17T18:31:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T00:31:47","slug":"and-its-1-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"And it&#8217;s 1, 2, 3 &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a discussion over at Slashdot on <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/10\/15\/0052240\">how to learn\/relearn math<\/a>. As with all Slashdot discussions, the comments run the gamut from informative to a waste of electrons. Since I&#8217;m all about the continuing education, I found some of the advice and linkage to be interesting and (potentially) useful.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also interesting to consider the effects of calculators and smart cash registers on arithmetic skills in the same light that other <a href=\"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=276\">technology may have effected memory<\/a> (the link referring to the &#8220;outboard brain&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Just remember the advice (which I&#8217;ve seen on t-shirts and bumper stickers) posted by one commenter: Don&#8217;t drink and derive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a discussion over at Slashdot on how to learn\/relearn math. As with all Slashdot discussions, the comments run the gamut from informative to a waste of electrons. Since I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}