This interesting educational 16mm film from my archives has lots of cool slices of life in the mid-1970's interspersed with graphics of decimal operations. Cool calculators? Check. Rulers? Check. Kids outside having fun with measuring things? Check! As usual I transferred this film with my own Telecine and corrected color to taste. Enjoy!
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10 thoughts on “Decimal operations 1977”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alfred Klek says:

    You're the best Frran. I love this stuff.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars websurfer says:

    Ah, the nostalgia!

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Frenchcreekvalley .frenchcreekvalley says:

    I thought this was going to be about converting from binary to decimal with vacuum tubes, etc..

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars gabest4 says:

    Imperial measurement uses dozimals.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ted McFadden says:

    Holy cow! They had the metric system in the 1970s too?? 😱 /s

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars marmaly says:

    I have that exact calculator in the thumbnail. And it works!

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars MusicManiac says:

    Revisiting a film I might have seen in grade school in the 60's. I was surprised when they mentioned adding tax to their grocery total for the final cost. I don't ever remember groceries bought in NJ ever taxable. I had to look it up. I was correct, food purchased here in NJ was never taxed, with the exception if service were ever rendered, of course. Today, there are 13 states that have a grocery tax. Arkansas at 0.125%, up to Mississippi at 7%., with 11 states inbetween. Just a little information for your next Trivial Pursute game.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hott Puppy says:

    What, no Common Core math? Average person these days can't even make change.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars theelmonk says:

    Decimal is just the base 10 counting system. What's meant by 'decimal' used as the name for the part after the point is the phrase 'decimal fraction'. So yeah, obviously they're 'just another way of writing fractions'.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alessio Piantanida says:

    it would have been more useful when I was 8 😅

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