Re: It's wrong, but how would you explain?

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:39:32 +0000, Robert Low <mtx014@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

But the student wasn't adding fractions, he was adding
marks. Correctly.

I know!! I did it for a living. I was talking about the implied
misunderstanding by the student for goodness sake, and the fact that
the OP was asking how to explain the difference to him.

Words, words, words ...and not a single bit of common sense. A
tempest in a teapot.

.

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