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You may have seen a craze involving colorful elastic bands.
Don't despair! It is teaching children mathematics and geometry including Pascal's triangle and Fibonacci sequences. Even young children are learning terms such as hexagon and rhombus.
Furthermore, kids are also learning reading skills and fine motor skills while making friends and gaining confidence. Many are also learning about economics.
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Elastic Band Craze Teaching Children Mathematics and Geometry
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(Score: 1) by anubi on Monday July 07 2014, @01:55AM
When I went to read the story, I get not picture of the device. Looks like it tried to load, then goes away. I even told NoScript to load everything anyway and it still would not load.
I get the idea that we have a lot more problems than bracelets can solve... it appears that even using an HTML image tag is beyond their capability.
Funny thing - when I was in school, my teachers would downmark me for making excessively complex sentences to describe a simple concept.
Times change. Now webmasters seem to be paid by the megabyte, whether or not it displays anything useful to the customer.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 3) by cafebabe on Monday July 07 2014, @03:23AM
You're not missing much without the pictures. However, I'm fairly surprised that people had problems accessing them. I use Firefox with AdBlock, Ghostery, NoScript and other security/privacy plugins. I also have a 700KB /etc/hosts file to block common advertising servers. Unfortunately, as a matter of practicality, I punched a large hole through this security to allow Google's hosted copy of jQuery. I fully understand if you haven't done likewise. So, a difference of configuration here is likely to be the problem.
Regarding the general trend, web designers are increasingly adept at making websites which don't work. Posting an image and/or selling something remains possible with 15 year old hardware and software. It isn't rocket surgery but web designers find new ways to fail at this basic task.
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