Re: maths - OT (was: How long is a Chain?)

["Tony Soar" <ajsoar@senet.com.au>]

Great!

I was at school in the 40's and 50's.  In those days there were 112 pounds
in a hundredweight!  Maybe metrication (of a sort) came in earlier than I
expected.

(That bulge in my cheek is a tongue)

Tony.


Kim Hazelgrove <azltech@opera.iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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> I am a maths teacher. I was referring to when I was at school in th early
1960s. Gd6
> (Primary) was when all the calculation of imperial weights and measures
was done. We
> also had exams in Primary school then! And kids think it is hard to
perform
> arithmetic with base10. We also had to learn and convert all those other
bases as
> weel- you know : 16oz =1 pd;  14pd=1 st; 108pd=1cwt etc. Yes I did Yr12,
but it was
> the first year of metric.
>
> Kimbo
>
> James Brook wrote:
>
> > Did you ever do year 12? I'm in Victoria and I did maths methods last
year. I
> > didn't even attempt to do specialist maths. As far as I'm concerned
maths methods
> > was the hardest maths I have ever done.
> >
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