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  1. brenda midgley
    Member

    Oh - she's awake then.........

    Posted 9 years ago #

  2. Helen Hawkins-Ainsley
    Member

    I use inches as well, so do I count as an 'old un' now?

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  3. Barbara Stone
    Member

    Most definitely - centimetres were always referred to as "those funny foreign measurements" by my dad, and I'm afraid I have to agree with him. Can't work in metric!

    How many sleeps is it now Christine?

    Posted 9 years ago #

  4. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    Still in double figures, folks - 11 sleeps to go.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  5. Jean Strange
    Member

    Still remember metric style money being introduced. Going on a theatre trip with sixth form at school given cost in old pounds and pence my friend came out with "OK how much in this new Mickey Mouse stuff then?" Centimetres have always been foreign even though have had to teach for years!!

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  6. Helen Hawkins-Ainsley
    Member

    You blame my Mum for me working in imperial measurements - learnt them all from her
    Adding up in metric is easier, but I just can picture them in my mind
    I still do all the old weights as well

    Leicester may be next month, but it's also next week now

    Posted 9 years ago #

  7. brenda midgley
    Member

    Never had any problem with decimalisation - that's just 5's and 10's to me, but weights and measures has me scratching my head - I usually end up having to work something out as 'bags of sugar' - and measurements in terms of height and width etc. - well, I only know 1.2 m. and that's because that's all I can cope with in a swimming pool!! Anything more than that - because of the fact I don't seem able to stay afloat treading water - and I know there's a distinct possibility I could drown. (Mind you, there are those who can be heard to utter.....'if only'.........)

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  8. Barbara Stone
    Member

    Quite agree about weights and measures - I'm not brilliant with them either. But metric measurements - well, I was making my pantomime costume this morning, and suddenly realised I was using both imperial and metric (not at the same time I hasten to add), so maybe I'm not so old fashioned as I think I am.

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  9. Jean Strange
    Member

    Didn't really have a problem with decimalisation it was just my friend with the cheeky comment to the sixth form director. Weights and measures are still a bit of a problem. I know that 113 grms is equivalent to 4 ozs. Now I am not teaching any more don't have to worry about heights, weights and measures any more!!!

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  10. Rachel H
    Member

    Just a final word on the sums thing....

    Saw this on FB - says it all really!!

    "How I see maths word problems;
    If you have a pencil and 7 apples, how many pancakes will fit on the roof?
    Purple. Because aliens don't wear hats."

    'Nuf said!!!!!

    PS N I N E sleeps to you know what!!!

    Posted 9 years ago #

  11. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    That would be the Surrealist branch of mathematics....

    .....and 8 sleeps to go now!

    Posted 9 years ago #

  12. Auntie Beryl
    Member

    What I want to know is , whatever happened to Sums and Arithmetic ?

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  13. Rachel H
    Member

    This time next week ......

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  14. brenda midgley
    Member

    You've been reading my thoughts today Rachel!!

    Barbara if you get to read this I know I owe you an e-mail. I'm just off now to play trains. I'll get back to you next week..... in the meantime yes, go for it with the Spitfire and poem - you'll probably make a better job of it than me anyway....

    Posted 9 years ago #

  15. Jean Strange
    Member

    Auntie Beryl sums are now called calculations and arithmetic is now mathematics or it was a couple of years ago when I was still teaching!!

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  16. Barbara Stone
    Member

    Brenda, doubt it, but I'll speak to you soon.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  17. Barbara Stone
    Member

    3sleeps !!! Yippee

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  18. Barbara Stone
    Member

    Whoops, finger slipped there, and I meant to put 4!

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  19. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    Well it is 3 sleeps now! :oD

    Posted 9 years ago #

  20. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    ... 2 sleeps ...

    Posted 9 years ago #

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