Yeah, I’m unsure what that’s supposed to make us think other than the dipshit parent has issues of their own.
Or maybe , like my coworkers over 30 years ago often did , she accidently entered the wrong amount tendered and gave you the change that was correct for that amount tendered.
I’m 52 years old, and 30 something-years ago there were plenty of people with no math sense. There were those who gave you $15 in change when you paid for a $5 purchase with a $10 bill becasue they entered $20 for the amount tendered- those people didn’t seem to even be thinking. There were those who understood that if they accidently punched $100 as the amount tendered instead of $10, they could simply take $90 off the register-provided change (if the register said there was $92.06 change for a $100 bill, the correct change was 2.06 for a $10 bill).
And there were those who noticed that the change was incorrect ( how could he get $92.06 in change when he gave me $10?) but didn't *understand*. They refused to believe you could just take the 9 off the front and give the $2.06 in change. They believed that the drawer would be short because they punched in that they took in a $100 bill when they didn't. They didn't understand that whether the register "thought" they took in a $100 bill and gave $92.06 in change or that they took in a $10 bill and gave $2.06 change, the only thing that mattered was the $7.94 that was added to the drawer either way. These are people who would have started school in the mid to late 1960's , so it can't be blamed on any recent teaching methods.
So am I supposed to report this?
Or is it sarcasm?
I truly cannot believe that “new math” has such political baggage–which OP stated at the outset.
But since knocking on conservatives seems to be default, fuck it, I’ll report it.
Reported.
You guys are the only ones who are bringing politics into it. The word “conservative” need not refer to politics; it can simply mean “holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation.” (Of course, political conservatives do tend to hold political views that fit this description.)
jz78817 was responding to the OP’s use of the word, and I think it’s apparent that both were using it in this sense.
Moderator Note
If anyone was offended by the use of the word, they should have reported it a week ago, when the original post was made (or anyway when they saw it), rather than responding to it directly.
At any rate, going forward, for the purposes of this thread let’s take “conservative” as having its social (“small-c”) rather than its political (“large-C”) meaning.
Colibri
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Now physics, there you’ve got a conservative subject matter! All those conservative force fields! Nary a progressive, leftish liberal force field to be found in any physics text anywhere. And mathematics is the articulated reticulum, the interwoven language by which all of physics is described and held together! It must be conservative!
All these liberal left-wing Common Corers, trying to re-write the narrative of science and change the very nature of the world out from under us! Feh! Who needs it? For this, we have Quantum Mechanics!