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| ``Re: Foreseeable comments for the basic arithmetic tables up to 12''
by rspuzio on 2007-01-20 11:47:04 |
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| Maybe you find them useless, but I am quite sure that they will
prove of use to schoolchildren and their teachers and parents.
Just because you have long outgrown the stage where you learned
arithemetic and pored over times tables doesn't mean that other
people arn't at that stage and they might appreciate finding PM
entries which cater to their level of mathematical development.
Let me add that I am quite glad to see these entries appearing.
One of the many weak areas of PM coverage has been elementary
mathematics, especially elemenatary mathematics written in a way
which is accessible to beginners. Not only should this area be
covered in its own right, but good coverage of this area would
be of economic benefit. It could lead to increase use of the
collection by students, teachers, and parents and this, in turn,
could lead to increased donations --- if you look at the
comments on the Wikimedia donors page, you will see that a
significant part of the donations came from parents who were
grateful for the role Wikipedia had in helping educate their
children and wanted to see such a resource not only not
disappear, but grow in usefulness. Even if you don't give a
turkey's tailfeather about elementary school stuff, you might
care about the indirect effects of the increased traffic and
donations in funding improvemnts to the platform which make it
better for advanced mathematics. |
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