Per Rønne <per@RQNNE.invalid> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> Per Rønne <per@RQNNE.invalid> wrote
>>> Mitch <mitch@hawaii.rr> wrote:
>>>> Per Rønne <per@RQNNE.invalid> wrote:

>>>>> School children should learn to have the ordinary operator
>>>>> hierarchy at their fingertips ...

>>>> Really?
>>>> Then you are discounting any system that just doesn't use calculators?

>>>> Calculators, in your view, are necessary and must be of that type?

>>> It is the standard in mathematics and has been so for centuries.
>>> It is simply unacceptable for scholchildren at their math exams
>>> to think that the expression:

>>> ax + by

>>> means:

>>> (ax + b)y

>>> And it doesn't matter whether they are at the O-levels
>>> at sixteen or at their A-levels three years later.

>> Then there's the real world and the calculators
>> they will use once they leave school.

> Yes, but after all they still have their calculators from school.

Not in their workplaces they dont.

> BTW, I teach in the three-year Sixth Form College.

Thanks for that completely superfluous proof of whats
wrong with the worst of the education systems today.