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- From: fsmgs@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Michael Schmahl [Black-Robe Mage])
- Subject: Re: Mattel says "Math is tough."
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- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:13:01 GMT
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- Cameron Randale Bass writes
- > Try teaching multiplication to a seven-year-old. That way,
- > you get to see how 'hard' it is from both sides.
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- As a person who once was seven years old, I would like to say that I never
- found multiplication hard, except for seven times six and seven times eight.
- I could multiply and do long division since I was five.
-