5 minute freewrite 2464 prompt a complicated sum

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This is my post for #freewriters 2464 prompt a complicated sum hosted by @marinnewest

Math was one of my favorite subjects in school but when it came to the metric system I became lost, it was not my favorite anymore and I always wondered why I had to learn a system that I did not use.

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When we started growing clams, I found out why I had to learn it. We bought our clams when they were the size of a grain of beach sand and we had to grow them in what we called raceways, putting so many in each raceway.

The first time I was told I had to count them I thought it was crazy, how was I going to come up with such a complicated sum. As it turned out, it was easy, we counted so many milliliters, it has been so long that I now forget just how many, then times it by how many liters there were.

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We grew the clams in the raceway until they were 6mm in size, then put them in bags and planted them in the river bottom. When they reached 8mm we took them up and put a 1,000 clams per grow out bag and replanted, we left them a year until they were big enough to sell.

In the photo my husband is putting the clams in a container that held 1,000 clams, my granddaughter is helping.

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She liked to go with us on the boat, but she was too young to help count the clams.
Photos are mine

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I wondered where you'd got to! Glad you got the laptop sorted and you're feeling a bit better.

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Thank you, I am also glad to have it fixed, I am glad I have children who know how to fix these things, they just need to visit more often.

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Do you eat calms? In Bangladesh, we feed clams to ducklings and ducks. We don't nurture those. We search and collect those!

Nice story! The photographs seem pretty old, judging the resolution :)

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I do not care to eat them but many people do. Yes, the photos are almost 20 years old, we do not grow clams anymore, the entire ecosystem in our river crashed and we lost everything, it killed everything from shellfish to fish and birds that starved because they could not get the food they needed.

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I think if what was taught was taught together with real-life task we all could have solved the sum. Mats can be great but the teacher is the one who usually spoils it. They might be a genius but it's not the same as being able to explain what exactly should be calculated and why

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I agree I have had both kinds of teachers, some can teach but others are just there for the job and care nothing about teaching.

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