To beat the increasing literacy (and numeracy) problem, the authorities came up with a campaign called The 3 Rs: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Yet, of the 3 Rs, only one is spelt with an R. No wonder they have a literacy problem...
(UK, 1990s/early noughties)
(UK, 1990s/early noughties)
this reminds me a bit of the "5 out of 4 people" t-shirts I see students wearing sometimes...see here
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The Chinese language has an expression--大半 dàbàn ("big half")--which will kill you as a maths professor.
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