tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post4530710856749725096..comments2023-11-05T03:05:05.785-05:00Comments on MyRightWingDad.net: Fwd: Math from 1950 to 2007 -- from MaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-2174428766879223692008-11-29T02:50:00.000-05:002008-11-29T02:50:00.000-05:00This is a lame mutation of the progression of math...This is a lame mutation of the progression of math education joke, anyways. It ignores the introduction of New Math.AltWorlderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09181224452493396547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-74449984486229520982008-02-14T20:39:00.000-05:002008-02-14T20:39:00.000-05:00Oh, boy. I do the exact-change thing some, but mos...Oh, boy. I do the exact-change thing some, but mostly because I don't want a wallet full of ones and a pocket full of coins if I can at all help it. I do it more often around Christmas because I know they're usually running short one smaller bills and on coins and why hold up the line while they try to find someone to get them more for the register? <BR/><BR/>No condescension intended, really.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-88808166253753132312008-02-12T14:44:00.000-05:002008-02-12T14:44:00.000-05:00In my experience, the practice the asshole here de...In my experience, the practice the asshole here describes is pretty far from universal. Several friends of mine, being former register jockeys, found it kind of condescending, like saying 'OK, clearly you can't work with decimals - otherwise you wouldn't be the one back here - so lemme make this easy for you.' <BR/><BR/>I don't think that's 100% accurate as an assessment of it, but faced with Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-57818160376780650642007-10-31T07:46:00.000-04:002007-10-31T07:46:00.000-04:00"The counter girl took my $2 and I was digging for..."The counter girl took my $2 and I was digging for my change when I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her."<BR/><BR/>And the "counter girl" probably keyed in $2.00 as the total amount paid, put the $2 in the cash drawer and took the two cents change out while the customer was still digging for his/her change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-66629926160106840802007-09-24T22:25:00.000-04:002007-09-24T22:25:00.000-04:00I suppose it should come as no surprise that "humo...I suppose it should come as no surprise that "humor" this unfunny should also be an example of the ignorance that it purports to deplore, but in the 1990s, when in wingnutland the environmentalists and self-esteem gurus were supposedly in charge of teh curriculum, US schoolbooks had actual math problems cum corporate advertorials like these (NYT, 3/10/1999):<BR/><BR/>"For example, the 1995 Potato Headhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07197891921849976586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-56368116961444387992007-09-23T20:47:00.000-04:002007-09-23T20:47:00.000-04:00so in 2006 the question is in Spanish, but the mat...so in 2006 the question is in Spanish, but the math returns to being as difficult as it allegedly was in 1960. what are they complaining about??.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14890732943675228043noreply@blogger.com