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Just Want to Talk | Last Active: 17 hours ago | Replies (4327)Comment receiving replies
This is nowhere as good as @jakedduck1 ’s jokes, but……..
We had to have the garage door repaired.
The repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a 'large' enough motor on the opener.
I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower.
He shook his head and said, 'You need a 1/4 horsepower.'
I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4 and he said, 'NOOO, it's not. Four is larger than two.'
We haven't used that repairman since...
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We ran into that logic in a young man at the building supply center years ago, and I've never forgotten how amazed I was.
Here's the lesson my daughter's teacher used back in the 80's when trying to teach fractions:
When they insisted a 1/4 was bigger than 1/2 she would ask, "How many cents in $1.00, one-half dollar, and a quarter?" She would get the coins out and show them to the kids, and it would dawn on them.
Sue
Oh good grief! You know, that is really a sad commentary on our education system. I hope he wasn’t the owner.🤦♀️
FL Mary
And (God help us) they VOTE!!!
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@becsbuddy Is that what they call ‘new math’? 🙂