Thursday, May 31, 2007

Harvard studies

Your tax dollars at work: "In one experiment, children were read simple statements and a question: "Sarah has 64 candies. She gives 13 of them away. John has 34 candies. Who has more?" By the way, what's "symbolic arithmetic"?

2 comments:

  1. symbolic arithmetic, for an example, is such as Green Crescent+ Red Star+ Vichy Brown = D of PP

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  2. Hah! That's a good one. But, how do you add apples and oranges? We need a study!

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