This teacher I guess is just doing what has been approved by the school board.

The lattice math is not a subsitute for the calculator that we know of. Nor it is a panacea of the old or new math. It is just another tool that the students has to learn - just an extra tool they can use along the way - a technique of some sort - one tool that might come handy when the time is right.

In my desk I have a an old solar Casio and Palms casino calculators, two pocket dictionary Oxford American Dictionary and The New Little Oxford Dictionary to double check my work.

Bring along a pocket calculator when shopping - to use for price comparison. Some shopper has their I-E and other similar phones when they shop.

At the Broadacres flea market - the shoppers are getting sophisticated they see an item in my table, asked for my final price, step back turn around log into their 3g/4g/, huddle around with their friends or families finally walkout or walk back in, "I will take it". You know that in almost every electronic gadgets - calculator, calendar, locator, and some more functions to ease their lives.

Oh yeah. grandpa-ma, great grandpa-ma and great great grandpa-ma when they are still around in the living room/dinning room - are wondering what is going on around him.

You want to test your grand kids in kindergarten? You will be surprise?

I see kids in the mall with two iphones, Ipads - ebooks - as young as 3 years old.

The other day I was in Whole Food at the Boulevard - I saw two kids one maybe 5 and the older maybe 10 years old - I walked so slow and was watching their screens - they were not playing games but reading in their IPads.