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Discussion on: I got bored with asking my son for multiplication tables, so we programmed together a little game with Scratch.

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Rémy 🤖

Fun fact though. It taught me programming but not multiplication tables. Those I still don't know.

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Davide de Paolis

:-) why learn them if we can build software to do the heavy weight...

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Andreas Jakof

My math teacher always said „You don’t carry a calculator with you all the time.“

Well, it was the mid-80s and 90s before mobile phones were common and way pre iPhone.

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Davide de Paolis

I guess math teachers still keep on saying that. :-)

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Mike Lockhart

True, but my year nine math teacher said "one day, you probably will have a computer in your pocket which can answer any question. You still need to understand the answer so you can spot if you hit the multiply key when you should have pressed plus. You at least have to have some idea of the answer, not blindly accept a wrong one just because that's what the machine calculated". Best advice that year.

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Davide de Paolis

that´s the same for us googling answers in the internets. you can´t copy paste code blindly, you must understand what you read and understand if that could be the right solution or make things worse..