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Originally posted by ffips:
You see, this time I had a chisel with me and I popped those quarters off the floor and then laughed at the men on the bench while they became furious that I ruined their fun. After that, they tried two more times to glue quarters to the floor and I came away with their quarters each time.

Heard the grownups using the pejorative term 'chiseler' many times when I was little.
Now I get the etymological origin.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

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Originally posted by fischtown7:
Last time I checked American coinage is still the only one that does not have a numeric value imprinted on it.

Interesting. I thought you must be mistaken. The penny and nickel have “one cent” and “five cent” respectively. Dimes are marked “one dime” and quarters are marked “quarter dollar.” Fifty cents don’t have any marking at all!

Wrong. The Half-Dollar is marked as such.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
When I was a kid I happily picked up a penny found on the sidewalk. .

How about checking the coin return of every pay phone you passed by?

^^^ Absolutely! And I still pick up any coin I see on the street. They go into a special jar.

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Originally posted by 2BobTanner:

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

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Originally posted by fischtown7:
Last time I checked American coinage is still the only one that does not have a numeric value imprinted on it.

Interesting. I thought you must be mistaken. The penny and nickel have “one cent” and “five cent” respectively. Dimes are marked “one dime” and quarters are marked “quarter dollar.” Fifty cents don’t have any marking at all!

Wrong. The Half-Dollar is marked as such.

I didn't see it in the image when I googled the coins. And in any case, in responding to the post, while I consider one cent and five cents as numeric values, I consider "dime," "quarter dollar," and "half dollar" as not (direct) numeric values.

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
The question was HOW MANY DIMES ARE IN $15
Simple question, no room for debate. Jesus on a pogo stick. It's 150 freaking dimes, not 2 $Fives, 4 $Ones 3 quarters 2 dimes and 5 pennies.

No. You're misunderstanding the issue. The issue isn't determining how many dimes are in $15; the issue is that students are not familiar with currency denominations.

An analogy would be asking "How many dozens are in a gross? And how many units are in a gross?" To answer the question, you have to be familiar with what a gross is and what a dozen is.

The key is not being able to do rocket science; the key is understanding the numerical value of a "dime."

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the key is understanding the numerical value of a "dime."

The one guy got that the value was 10 after initially saying 5. The part that astounded me was he immediately jumped to multiplying ELEVEN x 15. Not ten.

Almost zero critical thinking skill. In a way, less than zero because he couldn't have gotten where he did, and then screwed up that badly with zero thinking skill. He was never taught to think in the first place.

That's just special brand of dumbass right there.

A student in Philadelphia faces expulsion for posting this video of his fellow high school seniors that can barely read


https://youtube.com/shorts/-rX...?si=w6G-pz-8UlgTEK9b

Was the student white?

ETA: Apparently not. Don't they know that it's racist to expel a black student?

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
A student in Philadelphia faces expulsion for posting this video of his fellow high school seniors that can barely read


https://youtube.com/shorts/-rX...?si=w6G-pz-8UlgTEK9b

One common denominator in the video.

This always reminds me of two events.

Event One: The 1987 documentary that arguably started it all, its the Harvard Graduation "what causes the Seasons" question. None of them got it right.

While it was slow to get public, it is one of the earlier viral videos of the internet in the late 90's and was coupled with people lauding that 'any 5th grader can answer that question' which led to the show 'are you smarter than a 5th grader'.

Then Event Two: JayWalking with Jay Leno. Specifically (I was a teacher in Texas) and they got VERY embarrassed that students who were standing in front of the capital not being able to identify where the capital was. There was a 911 and the state board made the executive decision to ADD Texas history back to the state achievement tests and overnight, we all stopped using Social Studies as study hall and started actually getting to teach . . . Texas History.

I could not find the original video but this gets the point across:

Ok when I say started it all, We should arguably go all the way back to the early days of the 'Reagan Administration and review the "A Nation at Risk" report. So are The ability to not motivate our young to learn, well it is not a new one.

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Originally posted by redstone:
So are ability to not motivate our young to learn, well it is not a new one.

Yes. Not new at all.

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Originally posted by Paten:

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Originally posted by redstone:
So are ability to not motivate our young to learn, well it is not a new one.

Yes. Not new at all.

*sigh* nice ad hominem, always a crowd pleaser. Yes, I should have finished editing. But if I start that 90% of the time I just delete the post.

Just consider it snark. Don't take it personally.

The movie"Idiocracy" was not a comedy. It was a documentary.