Traffic warden required - training in telling the time will be provided.....
15 July 2008, 04:59 PM
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Traffic warden required - training in telling the time will be provided.....
OK, so the educational requirements for being a traffic warden might not be too high - but I would have expected that being able to tell the time wouldn't require additional training.
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For me, being 6 years old happened more than 40 years ago so my memory may be a bit suspect, but I'm sure that at that age if I was asked to add 75 minutes to any time I'd have thought of what the clock looked like at the original time, mentally move the small hand forward an hour to take care of the 60 minutes, then know that 15 minutes is a quarter of an hour so move the big hand forward by three numbers.
However, calculators hadn't been invented then so mental arithmetic involving yards, feet and inches and also stones, pounds and ounces meant that we didn't assume that all measurements were decimal.
However, calculators hadn't been invented then so mental arithmetic involving yards, feet and inches and also stones, pounds and ounces meant that we didn't assume that all measurements were decimal.
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