Coins & Notes

And that was post #100!!

My newspaper has not turned up for about a week now. At first I thought someone was pinching it but then I realised that maybe my subscription had expired. Though it is hard to say as The Korea Herald office is not the easiest to deal with, even for Koreans.

I'm trying to teach my students how to count using coins. Very annoying as firstly the math book we use does not number the questions. It instead uses colourful symbols. Akin to me teaching these children English in Greek. Also, the coins used in the book are U.S. currency, none of which show the number and only one says the value (the nickel).

Speaking of strange American customs, a space mission to Mars in the 1990s failed because the NASA engineers were using the imperial system rather than the globally accepted metric system so their calculations were way off. Here's a clue guys; If you have ten fingers, you will probably count things in sets of ten. Which makes me wonder...

So, I am making them some Australian coins which are more colourful and actually show the numeric value. Though the American coins do feel pretty nice.