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Originally Posted by jyl View Post
That was fast. Thanks.
Even beyond the imperial/metric transition, she can understand this:

A turtle might move at 5 feet per hour.
A person might walk at 5 miles per hour.

Even though the VALUE is the same, it's obvious that the turtle and the person are not pacing each other in that hour long race.

Now, understand how much faster the person is going than the turtle might be beyond her math level (dunno) but the concept would work.
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