Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Just because you can't do mental math doesn't mean others don't still do it. You've never added up the price of items you're purchasing to make sure everything was rung up correctly at the register? Or do you pull out your calculator?
I use mental math all the time. The point is that you can also use your smart phone for all of it. 20 years ago when everyone didn’t have a calculator in their pocket the only option was mental math. Now you have a tool that will do it for you to find a tip, add the cost of items or anything else. That’s the point. You can still do mental math and it will be faster (usually) but now there is the option where you don’t have to if you don’t want to or can’t.
I answered most of this in the post above but for the grocery store example you can also just look on the tag and it has the price per ounce, no math needed.
He definitely seems like an exclusive Walmart shopper. So I think he's fine without needing to know division.
You still have to do the number of ounces times the price per ounce.
20 years ago the people the people that couldn't do mental math were lost. Today, even thought they have a "calculator in their pocket" they are still lost.
Sigh. For someone all up in arms about basic math you sure don’t know how to use it. If something has a lower price per ounce it is the cheaper product by volume.
Hypothetical question: in 15 to 20 years, will there be a Big 12 school(s) which rank in the top 5 of power 5 schools in TV viewership for football? After OuT leave, which game in the Big 12 regular season football will be the highest watched game?
Most fans are like this unless you are a diehard. SEC fans are the same way where there is nothing outside of the SEC. We’ve seen how pretentious the PAC-12 fans are. And the Big 12 is no different where we have a very high opinion of ourselves. Now most on here are big sports fans so we know what else is out there, but believe it or not we aren’t the norm.
The last time I had to read cursive was when I was taught it over 20 years ago. Right around the same time we converted my great grandmother's recipe box.
Such a useless thing to ever learn and I hope kids these days don't have to waste their time for it
Such a useless thing to ever learn and I hope kids these days don't have to waste their time for it
What if you only need 12 ozs and the next larger one up is 24 ounces to get the cheaper price. That's right, your calculator knows how many ounces you need.
I was told no math was involved. God if we are going to derail this thread because nothing new has happened, can we at least make it with something not as boring as math? Pick anything else I beg of you.
Start a new thread for your math discussion. Thread killer.
