It is interesting now days, when you tell someone to do the math, they look at you like your some kind of alien. I do this routinely including at my work where we have to do some math occasionally. The youngsters look at me like I am nuts or asking them to do something they should not have to do. I jokingly asked a young engineer once to calculate how many ping pong balls it would take to lift the Titanic off the bottom of the ocean and get it to the surface, by god she liked math and went home and came back the next morning with the answer. She showed me her math (way over my head) so I don't know if she was correct or not, but I give her credit.
