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Topic: Can you count change?
oldhippie1952 Joined Mon 03/14/11 Posts: 22693	Sun 01/29/12 03:04 PM
I learned to count change in elementary. It is called basic arithematic! One doesn't need to use the brain for basic maths anymore. Student are allowed calculators in class so. I was allowed to have a slide rule in high school. Calculators if you could afford one were verboten!

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sun 01/29/12 03:17 PM
I learned to count change in elementary. It is called basic arithematic! I learned "basic arithmetic" in school too, but it is not the same as learning to count change back to someone.

sweetestgirl11 Joined Fri 09/12/08 Posts: 30087	Sun 01/29/12 03:19 PM
I learned to count change in elementary. It is called basic arithematic! I learned "basic arithmetic" in school too, but it is not the same as learning to count change back to someone. right - in the dark with a lot of smoke and noise and guys yelling hey baby where's my round

krupa Joined Thu 07/03/08 Posts: 18651	Sun 01/29/12 03:40 PM
I could care less if I get the right change back...I am just happy when they accidentally get my order right and HOLD THE MAYO AND KETCHUP. (Satan's condiments......eeewwww)

oldhippie1952 Joined Mon 03/14/11 Posts: 22693	Sun 01/29/12 03:49 PM
I learned to count change in elementary. It is called basic arithematic! I learned "basic arithmetic" in school too, but it is not the same as learning to count change back to someone. They taught us in basic arithematic, part of the requirement.

Ladylid2012 Joined Sun 07/05/09 Posts: 42269	Sun 01/29/12 04:12 PM
Kids are taught the basics anymore, their only taught to test. It's been that way for a long time now. "No child left behind"

sweetestgirl11 Joined Fri 09/12/08 Posts: 30087	Sun 01/29/12 04:16 PM
I could care less if I get the right change back...I am just happy when they accidentally get my order right and HOLD THE MAYO AND KETCHUP. (Satan's condiments......eeewwww) I remember this one time I had a buncha highball glasses on the tray & it was kinda dark a few were scotch & soda - the rest were stuff live BV & 7 - they all looked like dark piss well I got back to the table and forgot what was what - so I just put them on the table and ran off...

LookinRound Joined Sun 12/02/07 Posts: 7894	Sun 01/29/12 04:18 PM
Years ago my boss and I were trying to figure out a problem, lots of numbers being thrown around, he's the kind that just talks out loud as he thinks, he says "So 4 into 100..." I whip out my calculator and had it half way entered when I stopped, looked up and he was staring at me with his mouth agape. I haven't used a calculator since. It's great mental exercise - even for the tougher calculations.

pennyg281 Joined Thu 11/08/07 Posts: 4348	Sun 01/29/12 04:29 PM
When I was an assistiant manager at Burger King The Drive thru register and the cash drawer were seperate and I got to teach the drive thru cashiers how to count change.

oldhippie1952 Joined Mon 03/14/11 Posts: 22693	Sun 01/29/12 05:43 PM
Kids are taught the basics anymore, their only taught to test. It's been that way for a long time now. "No child left behind" And we wonder why our kids place 26th in international compeitition out of 26 nations...

Ladylid2012 Joined Sun 07/05/09 Posts: 42269	Sun 01/29/12 06:28 PM
Kids are taught the basics anymore, their only taught to test. It's been that way for a long time now. "No child left behind" And we wonder why our kids place 26th in international compeitition out of 26 nations... I don't wonder. So glad the school daze are over for me and my boys.

RainbowTrout Joined Fri 04/06/07 Posts: 13869	Sun 01/29/12 07:22 PM
I am so anal about pennies. I cant bear to have pennies. Its my personal challenge to find ways to pay with them even if Im only trading up for a whole nickel at once. Because of that, I often have the experience you refer to. I try to hand it to them before the bills tho so they can type it into the ol machine, and not upset the order of thinklessness. I also understand that I am a loon, however. I never see anyone else do that foolishness. meh. I have a little change purse I got from the bank. It is great for people who have holes in their pockets. The pennies really start weighing after a while though so I try to get rid of them as soon as possible.

mssilverfox Joined Sat 12/08/07 Posts: 10529	Sun 01/29/12 07:49 PM Edited by mssilverfox on Sun 01/29/12 07:49 PM
When I worked at the Dairy Queen in the 90's, it used to drive me nuts that the high school kids that worked there didn't know how to make change... When my stepdaughter was in grade school instead of learning multiples they could use a calculator... Not the way to learn...

JERMANICUS Joined Sat 01/28/12 Posts: 597	Sun 01/29/12 08:17 PM
I worked as a fuel technition(I pumped gas) and didn't even have a register all I had was a wad of tens and twenties in my back pocket,a wad of fives and ones in my shirt pocket, and a change thing on my belt. My head was the register. I did round things up all the time though.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Sun 01/29/12 08:27 PM
The worst that can happen: You buy something that comes to, with tax, $9.83. You give the cashier $20. They punch in "received: $2000.00. The tender change will be $1990.17, naturally. The manager is out to lunch, the other patrons behind me are patronizing, and the cashier has a nervous breakdown. Hehe.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Sun 01/29/12 08:29 PM
I counte de change in bassic elemenetery. Bsic!! Shoo.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Sun 01/29/12 08:31 PM
Kids are taught the basics anymore, their only taught to test. It's been that way for a long time now. "No child left behind" Yeah, hell, in the old days if you had an unwanted child, you put it in front of a church door, or sent it down the Nile in a handbasket. These days it's well nigh impossible to leave a kid behind. Everyone's worried, you see, that they will be charged with not leaving the kid's behind. SShhhh!

massagetrade Joined Thu 02/22/07 Posts: 8505	Sun 01/29/12 11:00 PM
You can find teachers throughout the educational system, from elementary to post-doc, who argue that we don't really need to teach arithmetic because one always has a calculator, computer, register/POS machine, etc there to do the work for you.

Dan99 Joined Sat 08/23/08 Posts: 14941	Sun 01/29/12 11:08 PM
Some stuff you dont need to be taught, or at least shouldn't need to be taught. But then all kids are taught basic maths surely? (and yes i have been taught basic English, math does have an S on it! Bloody foreigners).

iam4u Joined Fri 10/13/06 Posts: 30096	Sun 01/29/12 11:18 PM
Does anyone here think like me? lol I taught all my kids how to count using money. And went on to show them division and adding and multiplying all through that same One dollar as their whole, for making 100,,then even into percentages,decimals, fractions, all through showing them through common pocket change. Just wondering??lol..I'm old enough to have worked my first jobs HAVING TO MAKE THE CHANGE, in my mind, to the customers... McDonalds,,,,whoooopeeeee....