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They are teaching math in school these days. My kindergartener knows the times table better than I do! Son asks, "mom, what's 4 X 6?" I respond, "Uhhhh!" Then he states, "it's 24, right?"Date: 4/1/2009 3:13:08 PM
Author: HollyS
What drives me batty is trying to teach my cashiers to 'count back change' instead of resorting to a calculator. Are they teaching anything in schools these days?
remember the pre computer days at the grocery store ? bananas 12 cents per lb X xx lbs and the cashiers had to do the math with their brain.Date: 4/1/2009 3:13:08 PM
Author: HollyS
As someone in the field of accounting, I have found myself absent-mindedly entering very simple figures into the calculator and then asking myself ''WTH???'' It becomes a habit. I haven''t lost my ability to add sums in my head, just my ability to think before hitting the keys.![]()
What drives me batty is trying to teach my cashiers to ''count back change'' instead of resorting to a calculator. Are they teaching anything in schools these days?
Date: 4/1/2009 4:01:04 PM
Author: choro72
Once at a campus store, I was buying stuff during a ''10% off entire store items''. The cashier girl was tediously punching in 10% off each items I had. She was chatting with another cashier girl saying ''I wonder if it''s the same thing if I scan all of it and then take 10% off the total bill'' This was at UC Berkeley, and I''m sure they were students.![]()
Date: 4/1/2009 4:31:44 PM
Author: Madam Bijoux
A math professor in a class I took said ''If you really want to insult someone, give him a calculator that has a percent key''.
and her major was mathematic.Date: 4/1/2009 4:01:04 PM
Author: choro72
Once at a campus store, I was buying stuff during a ''10% off entire store items''. The cashier girl was tediously punching in 10% off each items I had. She was chatting with another cashier girl saying ''I wonder if it''s the same thing if I scan all of it and then take 10% off the total bill'' This was at UC Berkeley, and I''m sure they were students.![]()
Oh, dear. She must have been absent that week in fourth grade, when they learned percents.Date: 4/1/2009 4:01:04 PM
Author: choro72
Once at a campus store, I was buying stuff during a ''10% off entire store items''. The cashier girl was tediously punching in 10% off each items I had. She was chatting with another cashier girl saying ''I wonder if it''s the same thing if I scan all of it and then take 10% off the total bill'' This was at UC Berkeley, and I''m sure they were students.![]()
And then there are my employees who''ve needed tutoring in actually using the percent key on the calculator. And don''t ask them to use it to figure out what percent of the total a particular sum is. Multiplying is dangerous enough territory for them. Division is surely for NASA scientists.Date: 4/1/2009 4:31:44 PM
Author: Madam Bijoux
A math professor in a class I took said ''If you really want to insult someone, give him a calculator that has a percent key''.