nanzi wrote:
During a simple gathering, a woman (near 50 of age) was astonished to see that some kids were gathered and were happily playing cards. She asked me, “How can they be playing cards?”
Just a few days ago, my other half expressed incredulity at her tutee’s ignorance of “clubs” and “spades” or the number of ‘J’s and ‘K’s within a deck of cards. Apparently, the mathematics question she was explaining dealt with probability and made used of a deck of playing cards as a scenario.
Given the hostile climate against playing cards in most educational institutions — I heard the more “premier” schools have saner rules; some even have bridge clubs — I suddenly wondered why was knowledge of the contents assumed of all mathematics students in the first place?
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The taboo is only lifted during the famous chinese festival usually held in late jan to feb.
Yes! The play/use of cards in so taboo even in the tertiary instituition I come from.
It’s no surprise kids nowadays dont know that a deck has 52 cards, 13 cards of each suit and 4 suits per number.
Even for my extended family, we stopped playing Big2 when I was in Pri5 because they converted to another religion. Is this another reason? Because of erhmmmm.
i play cards with my duh anywhere :p we even did so at tcc b4 and didn’t quite draw any flak. i guess its how u do it as well as where u do it. they normally don’t quite appreciate 4 ppl sitting in a circle throwing jacks and queens and kings.. regardless, let’s play cards this weekend!!