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This article about mathematics in French schools (thank you, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mura_vey!) brought to my mind the winter of 1998, when I was teaching Artificial Intelligence at the University of Limerick (yes, the same Limerick as in ‘There was a Somebody from Somewhere’*). In the final (written) exam there was a problem that involved the evaluation of several simple arithmetic expressons. Here is one of them.
*P.S. [24 December 2004] Or, appropriately, as this one.
mura_vey!) brought to my mind the winter of 1998, when I was teaching Artificial Intelligence at the University of Limerick (yes, the same Limerick as in ‘There was a Somebody from Somewhere’*). In the final (written) exam there was a problem that involved the evaluation of several simple arithmetic expressons. Here is one of them.100 + 5 × 3( Worked it out? Then read on. )
*P.S. [24 December 2004] Or, appropriately, as this one.
