Today I had my first opportunity to correct a sign with an incorrect decimal point. I was at my beloved Allendale farm and noticed a chalk sign by the register stating Honey Stix .25¢. With some encouragement from J I turned the little chalkboard around and asked, "Is it alright if I am an obsessive math teacher and fix your sign?" The woman behind the register said, "oh my goodness, that says a quarter of a cent! Please fix it." Score one for the Decimal Project! She then said, "you should have asked for change back from a penny." A woman after my own heart!
If you look carefully at the picture below you can see two smudges - one where I accidentally put my thumb on the "y" of Honey and another where the decimal before the 25¢ used to be. The staff at the registers also said they'd look around the farm stand to fix the other signs. Next time I'm back that the farm I'll have to check to see if the signs have been corrected.
