Community Chat

[lovesrecess]

Went to a drs appointment this morning...the woman at the desk said I needed to pay 10% of $300. I said okay, and tried to give her $30. She said no, she would need to “ do the math” first to make sure that $30 was 10%. Someone had taken the calculator, so she did it with a pen and paper....tragic. She finally took my word for it and settled for $30. 

Guess calculators are the new math. Even cash registers tell you how much change to give...have you ever had to do the math for a sales person?

[NYCLatinaMe]

yes, maybe she was having a bad day

[SurferWife]

I'll be the first to say I'm no math genius, but that's just plum pitiful.

[sidsmom]

I don’t see anything wrong with someone having brain fog with math.

There are so many other things to put on my Life Resume other than

’Good At Math’ as a resume bullet point. 🙄

[deepwaterdotter]

My copay at the clinic is a set dollar amount, so we both know how much I owe when I arrive for my appointment.

[Bri369]

10% of any amount is extremely easy to figure out.   I know a lot of people hear percents and decimals and freeze up.  

The way they teach math today is awful, IMO.   

[Bri369]

All of our copays are dollar amounts too 

[CelticCrafter]

That's as sad as someone asking what time it was, telling them it was quarter past two and them saying they had no idea what that meant.

[sensibleshoppingsoothes]

This is an extreme examble, but the inability to do the simplest mental arithmetic (let's not even call it math) is sadly the norm today.  Wnen I help at our Public Library's book sales and add things like 25 cents and $2.50 in my head, people have literally asked me if I'm doing magic.  So sad.

[Daysdee]

I notice many in stores depend on the cash register to tell them the amount of change due.  They don't know how to count the change back.  Also, 10% is the easiest to know.