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6-11-2008 @7:38PM James Gess said... it would also make a nice food related tattoo.....much better than that rachael ray one.....lol. if i was into that
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6-11-2008 @8:30PM W. Graves said... gallon man is better, my 6th grade math teacher taught us this:
gallon is the body (circle)
4 quarts are the arms (triangles, space around the cicle)
2 pints make each hand/ foot (triangles, done like a figure 8 on the tips of the quarts)
and two cups go on the ends of the hand/foot points (circles)
i wish i could draw him out (makes more sense)
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6-11-2008 @8:51PM Sabrina said... What a cool idea for a mnemonic, though I like the "gallon man" idea that another reader mentioned. Gallon man would be a nifty presentation for children.
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6-11-2008 @8:53PM Uly said... My first grade teacher taught me this, and I still go back to it in my head every time I'm calculating volume :)
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6-12-2008 @7:53AM John said... Here's a picture
http://www.teachnet.com/graphics/lesson/math/mrgallon.gif
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6-12-2008 @8:50AM Bill said... The way I remember this is because I used to work in the Frozen Food/Dairy department of a grocery store all through High School and College. I can even tell you that 1/2 PT is 1 Cup, etc... You have no idea how many times someone told me that they needed a cup of heavy cream and when I handed then a 1/2 PT container they looked at me like I had two heads, no I need a cup they would say, and I would say I know, that is what I gave you. They should put a chart up for people at the store, it would minimize waste due to people buying too much milk/cream then they needed that is for sure.
Bill
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6-12-2008 @9:42AM Astin said... Or just switch to the metric system like the rest of the world, where we only use the pint to measure beer.
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6-12-2008 @10:00AM Dianne said... Gallon Guy! I, too, learned about him in elementary school and think of him nearly every time I cook. So helpful.
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6-12-2008 @10:13AM Monkey said... There's a simple answer to the problem of having to remember potentially confusing units .... go metric!
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