re: #139 Timothy Watson

For my mom (b. 1950), the Common Core way is the “old way”. That’s sorta of the way she was taught and it was useful for her when she worked as a cashier for a number of years back in the day.

She way she would make change is given the value of the transaction (e.g., $8.53) and the value of cash given (e.g., $10) she would count up the coin change to get $9.00 even and then another dollar bill to make it to $10.

Ah yes, the old way of making change. Now the machine just spits out the correct change and the cashier lays the bills on my palm & then piles on the coin.

I’m like “give me the coins first and then the bills”

Blank look.