Math will save your Life

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whayden2003

Remember when your teacher said "one day sonny math will save your life". Well maybe not that serious but. I've been spraying 2 to 1 clears pretty much my whole life. I know I get around a whole car with a gallon. Done it a hundred times. So I decide to use the production clear. It's what the customer wanted to spend. Purchased a gallon and the activator. Almost. And I mean almost didn't make it. I was stumped. Then I realized. Wait. 2 to 1 compared to 4 to 1. Yep that's a quart difference. Guess how much I was short. Sorry if this isn't interesting. Had to share.
 
Trust me. It will be that way next time. Thinking I'll push for the universal clear from now on.
 
Just don't expect the new math to save anyone's life.
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About 35 years ago we were playing Monopoly with our kids. When my son who was in 8th grade couldn't make change properly when I had to pay him rent I was shocked. So I asked him simple questions like how much is 3 x 6? He couldn't tell me. So I asked him about learning multiplication tables and he said, they don't teach that anymore.
So I began tutoring my own son on basic mathematics. How he could possibly be getting passing in grades at school was beyond me.
I learned then to never assume your kids are learning anything in the public school system.
By comparison our oldest son was in a Christian School and although just one year older, he could calculate interest payments on a home mortgage.
 
About 35 years ago we were playing Monopoly with our kids. When my son who was in 8th grade couldn't make change properly when I had to pay him rent I was shocked. So I asked him simple questions like how much is 3 x 6? He couldn't tell me. So I asked him about learning multiplication tables and he said, they don't teach that anymore.
So I began tutoring my own son on basic mathematics. How he could possibly be getting passing in grades at school was beyond me.
I learned then to never assume your kids are learning anything in the public school system.
By comparison our oldest son was in a Christian School and although just one year older, he could calculate interest payments on a home mortgage.

I thought it was 2nd or 3rd grade we had to know the tables to 10x10 not sure when but remember it took me about 2 weeks.
 
Imagine life not knowing simple multiplication. You see the kids working at cash registers that can't even count your change correctly.
I had one give me change for a twenty once when I had paid with a ten dollar bill. When I tried to explain his mistake to him he got all defensive as if I was trying to pull a fast one on him. LOL
 
Since i drive so much i stop at a lot of macdonalds for coffee to go use to give some change to make it easier on them but no longer do that.
1.37 and give the. 2.17, holy crap all you get is a blank stare.
 
Imagine life not knowing simple multiplication. You see the kids working at cash registers that can't even count your change correctly.
I had one give me change for a twenty once when I had paid with a ten dollar bill. When I tried to explain his mistake to him he got all defensive as if I was trying to pull a fast one on him. LOL

One of my first retail jobs where the cash register didnt make the change for you I learned to give change back counting from what the merchandise cost to what the bills I was given. Also to never put their remittance in the drawer till the correct change was handed back to them, always put their remittance crosswise on top of the drawer. Kept people from saying they gave a $20 when they gave a $10.
 
Yep Barry. The wife has made me stop doing that. I always tried to get a 5 or fifty cents back. Confuses the hell out of the youngins
 
Common core math is the single most stupid idea that anyone could have devised not to mention confusing as hell. I made the comment when I first heard of it and said only a stupid ass from California could make up something like that. So when I looked into it, yep you guessed it some clown from California devised it and pushed it as great thing and now their pushing it.

We need to go back to the basics it has worked very well and has gotten us this far, if it's not broke don't try to fix it IMO.
They don't teach cursive handwriting either, I just don't get it.
 
1969 got a job at a drug store 4-10 at night after school, $1.35 an hour!!!
Put up stock and they really took a liking to me, even offered to pay for college if I want to be a Pharmacist.
So after 6 months I was dispensing pills running the cash register but the best education i ever received was they had a professional come in and trained us how not to get "short changed" at the register by professionals, as that was happening a couple times a week at that one store.
Never did happen to me but the old ladies working during the day were getting raped like crazy.
 
My dad owned a restaurant when I was growing up. I started flipping hamburgers, stuffing hot dogs and running the register at an early age. Trust me, he did not cut me any slack. I cleaned the toilets, washed dishes, cleaned up the parking lot, washed windows, mopped floors and anything else that needed to be done. That is when I learned "THE BOSS IS ALWAYS RIGHT" (even when the boss is wrong). He instilled in me at an early age if you want something, you work hard and save your money until you have enough money to pay cash for it. Taught me a lot about working, saving and investing. I was car crazy at an early age and saved every penny I could because I knew I wanted a car when I was old enough to get my license. That day came but I did not have enought money to buy my first car. Borrowed enough money from my Grandmother to make up the difference to buy that first car. Worked all summer to pay her back every penny. Those were the "good old days". They made us who we are today.
 
learned to read with hot rod magazine . my dad always gave me my allowance in change so i had to count it to know if i got stiffed :)
one of the criteria for our move is getting my godson in a well rated small school . no warehouse education for him . you wont find common core in small schools .
 
My dad owned a restaurant when I was growing up. I started flipping hamburgers, stuffing hot dogs and running the register at an early age. Trust me, he did not cut me any slack. I cleaned the toilets, washed dishes, cleaned up the parking lot, washed windows, mopped floors and anything else that needed to be done. That is when I learned "THE BOSS IS ALWAYS RIGHT" (even when the boss is wrong). He instilled in me at an early age if you want something, you work hard and save your money until you have enough money to pay cash for it. Taught me a lot about working, saving and investing. I was car crazy at an early age and saved every penny I could because I knew I wanted a car when I was old enough to get my license. That day came but I did not have enought money to buy my first car. Borrowed enough money from my Grandmother to make up the difference to buy that first car. Worked all summer to pay her back every penny. Those were the "good old days". They made us who we are today.
If you do that today, your kid will be appointed an attorney and he/she will own you.

I don't know how today's kids would ever figure out the proportion markings on the side of a paint cup!
 
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