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::whello::  Hello!  Here is a funny piece by Dave Barry.  Due to copyright restrictions, I'll just post an excerpt and give you the link.  He is hilarious!  My favortie line is "The traditional method for teaching (math), of course, is to require students to solve problems developed in 1928 by the American Association of Mathematics Teachers Obsessed With Fruit."  Tee-hee!

:D  Dave Barry on Mathematics  :D

"President Bush says our schools need to do a better job of teaching mathematics, and I agree with him 150 percent. Many high-school students today can't even calculate a square root! Granted, I can't calculate a square root, either, but I USED to be able to, for a period of approximately 15 minutes back in 1962. At least I think that was a square root. It might have been a 'logarithm'.'' 

© 2006 Dave Barry

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i've always liked dave barry, he has a daily blog in the miami herald if you're interested. :)

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Lady Cop wrote: i've always liked dave barry, he has a daily blog in the miami herald if you're interested. :)

Yes, he rocks.  Wry humor gets me every time.

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