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I'm not sure our American kids are doing any better. The clocks in my children's junior high and high school are digital. My kids were taught to read the old clocks, but not sure if they remember how. I have one clock in my house for decoration. That's it.
I'm not sure our American kids are doing any better. The clocks in my children's junior high and high school are digital. My kids were taught to read the old clocks, but not sure if they remember how. I have one clock in my house for decoration. That's it.
I don't know if that's funny or sad, lol. A decoration, like a rare museum specimen.
I have battery-powdered analog clocks in my house. I had to teach my 4th grade relative how to read them.
I earned my first Timex watch in first grade by demonstrating that I knew how to tell time on the big clock in the hall (roman numerals) and the clock on the kitchen stove (arabic numbers).
Do they even make clocks in the US with roman numerals anymore?
In my office/ham radio shack I have 7 clocks:
1. "Vintage" style battery powered analog pendulum wall clock with Roman numerals.
2. An analog 4 clock panel showing different time zones, that I haven't replaced the batteries in for years.
3. A digital clock set to GMT.
4. A battery powered wall clock with 2 dials, one 12 hour analog and one 24 hour circular dial showing world time zones.
On the dining room wall is a wind-up clock that strikes the hour and half hour, with Roman numerals. Which reminds me, it is almost the first of the month, time to wind it up again!
All the other clocks in the house are digital, except for wrist watches (mine has numbers for both 12 and 24 hour time).
My grandkids know how to read analog clocks.
I don't know if that's funny or sad, lol. A decoration, like a rare museum specimen.
I dont think its either. Clocks are used for decorations, always have been. If they weren't, we would all just have the plain black and white clocks you would find at schools. Instead, I can go to the store and find hundreds of different styles of clocks to fit with the decor of my house.
Many American kids cannot read either digital or analog...
And btw, their skills at other types of measurement are just as lacking. OMG, the time I have put in in the past two weeks trying to get them to use a ruler for basic measurement of a length of cord....astounding and frustrating.
During the brief time that LED clocks were all the rage, I met a few young people who read the hands of a clock. I was because they mostly were not exposed to them and did not need to learn, but i taught them. Now that the world has regained some sanity and ushered off most LED digital clocks, I'd be surprised if many people still have this problem.
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