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Barry Gray
Jul 4, 2014, 5:13:09 PM7/4/14
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When I was at school, more than sixty yeas ago, we were taught to write
three hundred and twenty four thousand nine hundred and sixty seven as
324,967 but when, more than forty years ago, I retrained as a teacher
after a period in industry, we were taught to write it as 324 967 and
this is how I have been teaching it ever since.
Since I retired from full-time teaching I have been doing private
tuition, and until now all my students, from many different schools,
have been happy with this. Very recently however one student has told me
that they are being taught 324,967
I do not think there has ever been international agreement about this,
but is there any agreement in English, Welsh, Northern Irish or Scottish
schools?
--
Barry Gray
A child is a fire to be lit not a vessel to be filled
three hundred and twenty four thousand nine hundred and sixty seven as
324,967 but when, more than forty years ago, I retrained as a teacher
after a period in industry, we were taught to write it as 324 967 and
this is how I have been teaching it ever since.
Since I retired from full-time teaching I have been doing private
tuition, and until now all my students, from many different schools,
have been happy with this. Very recently however one student has told me
that they are being taught 324,967
I do not think there has ever been international agreement about this,
but is there any agreement in English, Welsh, Northern Irish or Scottish
schools?
--
Barry Gray
A child is a fire to be lit not a vessel to be filled
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