geepondy
Flashlight Enthusiast
My 17 year old niece is applying for a summer job at a fabric store. Looking over the the application, they stated that you may have to do fabric measuring and cutting so how good are your math skills? So I asked her how many inches in a yard and she could not give me the correct answer even after some thought. I then asked her 12 year old brother and he could not give the correct answer although came relatively close at 32. I then repeated the question to my 27 year old niece from another sibling and she could not answer correctly! Is it that I just have really math poor relatives (I consider them all to be at least average in intelligence) or is it a sign of the times? I was taught to memorize the multiplication tables up to 12x12 by the third or fourth grade and I'm sure could have answered that question by the fourth or fifth grade. Go and ask the young um in your family the same question and see what they come up with.