Regards,
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Roberta S. Lacefield wrote:
>
> >And .25 cents...my students tell me that this is a quarter everytime.
> >They can't seem to grasp hundredths of a cent. Do others encounter this
> >also?
> >
> >Just wonder?????
> >
> >
> I was nearly tossed out of a Pic-n-Save once for trying to convince the
> manager that he was confusing my students by letting his employees write
> things like .89 cents and 3 for .99 cents. I tried to explain it to him
> but he just thought I was an escapee from an insane asylum. Now that the
> Pic-n-Save is closed, his employees are wreaking havoc at the local Walmart
> and my students continue to be confused.
>
> Roberta
>
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> Roberta S. Lacefield RSLace@mail.way.peachnet.edu
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