[OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

[Mark Wieder]

Richmond-

Sunday, February 26, 2012, 10:14:47 AM, you wrote:

> A slide-rule helps children (and adults!) visualise numbers and their
> relations to one another;
> a calculator does not.

As does an analog clock: there's a mathematical affinity that grows
out of visualizing the relationships between numbers that does not
lend itself to the display of digits on a computer screen or watch.
There is otherwise no cognitive difference between "five minutes to
ten" and "twenty minutes to ten".

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net