Old Man Yells At Cloud

[Ethan Furman]

On 09/19/2017 09:37 AM, justin walters wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-09-19, Jan Erik =?utf-8?q?Mostr=C3=B6m?= <lists at mostrom.pp.se>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> And I'm amazed how often I see people trying to calculate
>>>
>>>       change = sum handed over - cost
>>>
>>> and then trying to figure out what bills/coins should be returned
>>> instead of doing the simple thing of just adding to the cost.
>>
>> When I was a kid, making change like that was something we were all
>> taught in school.  I have a feeling that's been dropped from most
>> curricula.
>>
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>> is
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>
>
> Not sure about the most recent decade, but back when I was in elementary
> school(1995-2001-ish),
> we definitely still learned math through how to make change.

Ah, but making change and counting change are not the same thing!

Making change: $3.61 from $10 . . . $6.39

Counting change: $3.61 from $10 --

  - (give four pennies back) $3.65
  - (give a dime back) $3.75
  - (give a quarter back) $4.00
  - (give a dollar back) $5.00
  - (give a five back) and $10.00!

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~Ethan~