A party that can’t count, a high school graduate with the highest grades in math and a science that has been the dreaded subject of students for years. What’s wrong with our society? Can’t we all add, subtract, or the little 1×1? What does it take to eventually become a computing society, at least as far as basic knowledge is concerned? We asked those who need to know: math professors.
“Math, especially mental arithmetic, has probably become very unpopular,” says Univ.-Prof. Peter Grabner from the Technical University of Graz, “the pocket calculator can do that better.” Of course, “at least rudimentary arithmetic knowledge without technical aids is useful, for example for the rough plausibility check of a restaurant bill”. Or also for counting the votes in the SPÖ executive chair race? Well, according to Grabner, “The simple fact that the sum of an even and an odd number is odd would have prevented a lot of injustice.”
Source: Krone
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