A little old Aussie Education

[John B]

A couple of my maths books from Primary School, alooooooooooong time age.
One still has a remnant of the brown paper we used to cover our books with, using flour and water for glue.

[Foxfold]

Oh the memories.  I so remember the £ s d and the chaos it caused when we changed.  We used to spend ages trying to work out much we'd spent and trying to fathom out how 2 shillings became 10p.   

[RabidAlien]

4 hours ago, Foxfold said:

Oh the memories.  I so remember the £ s d and the chaos it caused when we changed.  We used to spend ages trying to work out much we'd spent and trying to fathom out how 2 shillings became 10p.   

None of that makes any cents to us Americans.

::ducks and runs::

[merlin]

Oh John and Brenda I remember it like it was yesterday.

I still use feet and inches some times  and even the wife and I sometimes convert back to Pound shillings and pence, just for the hell of it...

 

[Foxfold]

1 hour ago, merlin said:

I still use feet and inches some time

I've never stopped using feet + inches as I just cannot 'visualise' mm's.   When they say on the radio/tv  "it's so many mm's long" I look at Tony and he translates. 

[LarryEA]

I remember using flour and water for paste.

Thats how we glued news paper on our home made kites.

[John B]

6 hours ago, merlin said:

Oh John and Brenda I remember it like it was yesterday.

I still use feet and inches some times  and even the wife and I sometimes convert back to Pound shillings and pence, just for the hell of it...

 

I do all my measurements in metric,,but convert to imperial to visualise. I often confuse the shop assistants when I'm buying timber by asking for 2.4 x 2" x 1" or a sheet of 8' x 4' x 19mm. I know exactly what I want

[John B]

15 hours ago, Foxfold said:

Oh the memories.  I so remember the £ s d and the chaos it caused when we changed.  We used to spend ages trying to work out much we'd spent and trying to fathom out how 2 shillings became 10p.   

We felt really ripped of, not only did you get 10cents for a shilling (12pence), but the penny was so much bigger than a 1 cent piece.

[wombatie]

On 12/2/2020 at 8:53 AM, Foxfold said:

I've never stopped using feet + inches as I just cannot 'visualise' mm's.   When they say on the radio/tv  "it's so many mm's long" I look at Tony and he translates. 

That is so like Terry and I.  I only use feet and inches and he only uses metric  When we were renovating the kitchen we had so many disagreements because I had no idea what he was talking about half the time.

Marg

Edited December 3, 2020 by wombatie

[jollyred]

Luckily I went to school in America and didn't do math that complicated till I got into differential equations in college.

Tom