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Why would anyone these days bother to read a clock of any type. Most people have a cell/smart phone permanently attached to their hand that does that for you..... which is all well & good, until it fails. It never hurts to at least know how to do it the old fashioned way, whether you ever do or not. It's the same sort of problem that cropped up decades ago when calculators became cheap enough for everyone. Most younger people stopped learning to do basic math without one. The battery makers laughed all the way to the bank... and still are.
Correct. I'm a forty something and my wrist feels naked without a watch. All three of my watches have analog faces. I prefer that style. I used to wear watches that didn't have any numbers on the analog display at all, but I now prefer the visual reference point of at least being able to see the 12, 3, 6, and 9 when looking at an analog watch face. And to those youngsters out there, many employers do not allow their employees to keep their cell phones on them, not even as a timepiece I still do basic math without a calculator as well. When I was applying for my new job, I went to several interviews and at most of them, I was asked to take a quiz performing several math problems sans calculator.
Who cares? Can anyone here use an abacus? Instead we use calculators.
Not necessarily. Many of us still remember how to use our BRAINS for common math problems. I won't go into the reasons why one should develop that talent...
Most of the clocks in my house are digital. It's a necessity downstairs, where I can't have the sound of a motor-driven or ticking clock. But I like analog clocks with sweep second hands for being a better representation of the concept of time than digital clocks.
Not necessarily. Many of us still remember how to use our BRAINS for common math problems. I won't go into the reasons why one should develop that talent...
Which has nothing to do with your inability to use an abacus to calculate.
Correct. I'm a forty something and my wrist feels naked without a watch. All three of my watches have analog faces. I prefer that style. I used to wear watches that didn't have any numbers on the analog display at all, but I now prefer the visual reference point of at least being able to see the 12, 3, 6, and 9 when looking at an analog watch face. And to those youngsters out there, many employers do not allow their employees to keep their cell phones on them, not even as a timepiece I still do basic math without a calculator as well. When I was applying for my new job, I went to several interviews and at most of them, I was asked to take a quiz performing several math problems sans calculator.
As an aside, it's a fun fact that wristwatches were originally a women's fashion item (at the end of the 19th century). During World War I the militaries realized that a wristwatch is much more practical than a pocket watch in combat, so a generation of young men got used to them. Still, I imagine some older people at the time thought men wearing them was shamefully effeminate.
Heck my apple watch is set to a traditional analogue clock. I'm either part of the part or the solution! haha When using my cell phone I'll still look at my watch instead.
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.
As a teacher in America, I noticed that the more the years passed, more and more of my students could not read non-digital clocks or watches OR read and write in cursive. Eventually, none of my students could do either. So no, American kids are NOT doing any better.
what I find sad is that few people would know how to read the time of a stick's shadow stuck into the dirt. Sure it's pretty they would say, and then probably ask you what time it was.
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I still do basic math without a calculator as well. When I was applying for my new job, I went to several interviews and at most of them, I was asked to take a quiz performing several math problems sans calculator.
