The Buckets by Greg Cravens for March 27, 2012

Oh, you silly Americans and your inability to grasp basic math… :D :D :D

Poor kid. Racking the brain of a six year old might make his hair fall out. And he only has about a eight hairs now.

M2MM, that is what I got also…. basic stuff.

Find a common denominator.Change to like fractions.Subtract!

Is that so hard?

Double the 7/9 to 14/18 and it becomes clear what the answer is.

Sad but true.

My thoughts to a tee, Gary Albert.

equals 23 over 9 :P

The Jam, not everyone is @lvl asian-math. ;)

I copied the first fraction wrong at first ( 15/16). Try that one in your head!

Probably too common nowadays, schooling and simple math.I have to cry, and laugh… when I had a few purchases at a Supermarket and one item was taxable. I had my money ready, exact change. When the cashier rang it up, I gave her the money. (NO sexism or racism ar any ism here!!!)she looked at me in unfeigned total amazement…I know 99.9% would simply ring it up, I had no expectation that she would have or could have added in her head – there would have been nothing of any note had she just rung up the purchase… It was the jaw-dropping amazement that got me…

ASIAN level? People, I learned this in elementary school.

And I’m a Mexican :D :D :D

I’m late to the party, but I agree! As a nurse, I use metrics all of the time, and I love the metric system!