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<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>greenBubble,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>I LOVE maps. I love all of
them: paper ones, globe ones, online ones, fabric ones, old ones, new
ones, out-of-date ones, GPS ones. There is a map store in my town and I
could spend 40 hours a week there just absorbing and searching and poring over
maps. I love MAPS! I am even addicted to GoogleEarth. When
someone tells me about a place, I always look it up on GE so I can see what it
looks like from the air, what it's near, etc etc. I have an innate sense
of direction and can almost always point accurately N, S, E or W. Even as
a child, I have always known how we got someplace and how to leave and
return. I think it's because I was always curious and aware of my
surroundings. I was aware of street names and could give good
directions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>On the other hand, my eldest
daughter is hopelessly directionally challenged. She doesn't have a
clue! When she moved from Tucson (big and spread out) to southern
CA, we bought her a GPS. She could not have functioned in a new place
without one. I like the idea of driving on streets all over the place just
to get to know an area. I like to drive.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>The generation of kids who don't
know how to look up a word in the dictionary or find a business in the Yellow
Pages scares me a little...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>I think I might like being a taxi
or bus driver, but I am afraid of crazies. It seems not unlike working in
a Circle K/ 711/MiniMart kind of place where your life is in almost constant
danger from bad guys.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara color=#000080 size=4>Jeanene</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>-
People complain I'm absorbed and self-centered. And this affects me
how?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=jeanenehea@comcast.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:28
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [GCFL-discuss] How Times
Have Changed</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=398215114-26022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>NYS
has standardized tests, called Regents Exams, for HS students. for
math & sciences, high-tech calculators are required. plotting a
graph? use the calculator. look up a logarithm or trig function?
fugetaboutit. 2 clicks and you have it to as many decimal places as
you can handle.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=398215114-26022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
flip side is that when we were young, the fractions always worked out to easy
numbers, and a little thought would save you a ton of work. nowadays,
you can't make that assumption. </FONT></SPAN></DIV><!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->
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class=398215114-26022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Who uses maps
these days? you want to know where something is, you go to mapquest or
google. last week, my daughter took a wrong turn and got lost. she
called me for directions. i had her drive around a bit just to get my
bearings and then i told her how to get home. Once home, i said to her,
"you know there are maps in the door pocket, don't you?" Her response:
"Like I know what to do with a map??!"</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P dir=ltr><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Brush Script MT" size=5><SPAN
class=398215114-26022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>BTW, that's one
blessing of the cellphone: when getting directions, the person giving
directions can know exactly what the driver sees and can point out
landmarks in real time. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV>Good for your mom! ?Calculators were big, rare and expensive when I was
in school, but my current philosophy is, nobody should use a calculator until
they can do basic arithmetic in their head, know multiplication tables, etc.
THEN they can start using calculators when the simple arithmetic is NOT the
point of the exercise, just something that incidentally has to be done to get
to the solution.</DIV>
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