Friday, April 28, 2017
when I see it in words, I can keep it straight:
ten ones= a ten (that's its special name)
ten tens = a hundred (another special name)
ten hundreds = a thousand (the next special name)
ten thousands= ten-thousand?
that's not fair!
why doesn't ten-thousand get its own special name?
ten ten-thousands = a hundred-thousand!
that's not only unfair,
it's getting confusing now,
kind of like trying to pay for a college with its own special name
that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars
and you don't know exactly what you are getting for all those thousands
and ten thousands
and hundred thousands
of dollars that you are committing to spending.
at least with the numbers
neatly organized in periods of three digits (oh yeah, I've got the vocabulary)
you know exactly where you stand
and the special names don't matter so much
draft (c) HM 2017
The roundup today is over at Teaching Authors with Joann Early Macken. I hope you can count on me to make it over there even as the count-down to decision continues!