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I think they are, but they just train up in different ways. Its like, I don't know, learning to cook. You might master Indian food and then be useless at cooking French food or vice versa. Same with maths. Youngsters don't do regular drills of their times tables or pages of long division etc anymore, so now that sort of thing is not second nature for them so they can't do it. However, instead they do some pretty mind blowing maths at school now. Calculus, matrix theory, formulae like Pearson's Correlation Coefficient and Fast Fourier Transforms etc.

I'm not sure which way is best. It seems to me probably the older way because you're more likely to need basic arithmetic skills in ordinary day to day life, and if you wanted to get into science and engineering, then there's always opportunity for further study.

 

The equation for Storm Relative Helicity.. one of my favourite equations.

SReH=-h~ok(V-C) x dV/dz(dz)

I dont have any mathematical symbols on my keyboard. pfft.

By the way Maths is something I don't really enjoy.

 

equations send a shiver down my spine...

 

My father knew how many stairs there were on each flight at every station and exactly where to get on at each station so he'd alight directly opposite the exit at any destination, so I assumed everybody did that.

 

I hate when they keep changing it! When they made all your profile posts go on both sides, it took me a while before I realised what had happened!

 

I am sure they have their reasons, but the timeline in two lines I really don't like it.