With the Curriculum Collection (for Education students) comes some unique challenges to maintaining the integrity of the collection. Some items are "toys" and you need to have the right number of pieces to "play" properly. To this end, some staffers have to mark/tag the individual pieces - whether there are 10, 100, or 1000. This is a conversion that took place around such "tagging."
The scene: a female staffer begins the tagging colourful plastic tiles at a desk. Two male staffers take notice, and do what guys do with colourful blocks: they start to build thing [blame Lego]. After a while they ask, "What are these used for?", and so it begins...
"Well, you take a group of 12 tiles and you play math games with them." - female staffer
[One male staffer has 12.]
"Okay and now what?" - male staffer #1
"Well, if you have 12 and split them into 3 groups, how many do you have in each group?"
"4." [Both male staffers respond simultaneously.]
"Nooo."
[A look of befuddlement is expressed by each male.] "Huh?"
"Oh! No! Wait...! [A look of shock followed by laughter.] Sorry." [An extreme look of embarrassment.]
[Laughing] "Uh, yeah, I was going to say...."
The second male staffer breathes a sigh of relief that he wasn't wrong.
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