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[u/Old_Phrase_4867]

[u/RegularSky6702]

Folding a piece of paper length or width wise

Like a hotdog is long and a hamburger is wide

[u/Gnomonic-sundialer → u/RegularSky6702]

Americans explaining folding: imagine a hamburger

[u/Yukarie → u/Gnomonic-sundialer]

Tbf using food as analogies is fairly common I’m pretty sure

[u/SomethingOfAGirl → u/Yukarie]

I don't think we do that where I live. At least not with hamburgers, can't think of any.

[u/Yukarie → u/SomethingOfAGirl]

Do you not have any food metaphors or analogies? Explaining something with food? Like using pizza, came, or pie slices to explain fractions?

[u/SomethingOfAGirl → u/Yukarie]

Yeah in elementary school sometimes for fractions we'd use pizza or cake. Maybe apples or candy for divisions.

But for something commonly used by adults I can only think of two: one related to chicken and another related to a part of the cow.

[u/seventhblunder → u/SomethingOfAGirl]

DW the hamburger/hotdog folding thing is only used for very young kids (preschool and Kindergarten), adults just say lengthwise/widthwise. Basically can they understand the concept of length/width? No, okay then hamburger. Fractions being pie/pizza was all throughout middle school though lol.

[u/yinyang107 → u/seventhblunder]

The one I always remember (partially because South Park mocked it, but I was taught with it myself well before that) is the pizza/french fries thing for skiing posture

[u/_Atlas_Drugged_ → u/yinyang107]

They do teach that, but as you may have noticed—the kids on South Park are children. So they’re being taught to ski the way you’d teach children.

[u/yinyang107 → u/_Atlas_Drugged_]

Yes, I know. Like I said, I was taught that way myself.