It isn't much of a stretch of the imagination to see a 24-hour clock as
being an indication of your relationship with the rotating earth. The key word
here is "imagination".
>
>This bothers me more than not teaching cursive writing (something our local
>schools have returned). The beauty of telling time by looking at an analog
>clock face is that it teaches two things: The relationship of time and makes
>time a sort of "hands-on" commodity, and that it is a basic education in
>fractions, something about which folks are becoming more and more clueless.
>But this isn't computers, it's the digital clock which we all know predated
>the common usage of computers a bit.
>
>>
>>>On the news yesterday it was revealed that here in the US 80% of kids
>>>cannot tell time by looking at a clock. I'm the opposite: I look at the
>>>numbers and imagine the face of a clock to know what the time is. Chris
>>>Trask N7ZWY / WDX3HLB Senior Member IEEE
>>>http://www.home.earthlink.net/~christrask/
>>
>>
>>How do those 80% of kids tell the time if not by looking at a clock ?
>>
>
Chris Trask
N7ZWY / WDX3HLB
Senior Member IEEE
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~christrask/
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