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Beau Maes Outside our doors the numbers keep corning. Many years ago at a school where the authors taught, there was a special survival skills project for a group of refugees from Cambodia called the "boat people." Instead of corning from cities and towns, these boat people had lived on farms and in rural areas. They could not read or write. They did not know our system of numbers. Therefore, when their teacher gave them an assignment to go to Second Street, take the number 10 bus at 10:15 A.M., pay 75 cents bus fare, and travel across town to 116 Louisiana, they got lost. They did not understand our way of numbering streets or houses. The bus schedule made no sense, and our money system of cents and dollars confused them.
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