like the plus and minus sign for addition and subtraction is placed on the other side..
division is done differently and it took me a bit to figure it out... for example: 8593 divided by 23 is written like this:
for thousands and millions.. there are periods rather than comas.. for example.. 1 million is 1.000.000 not 1,000,000
and decimals are written as commas.. for example $12.50 would be $12,50... this took some time for me to get used to as well...
common denominator is also done differently....
letter are written slightly differently.. like a 1 has a weird line at the front of it.. but i've seen similar writing of people from european countries...
also, kids don't have books, they have notebooks, where they paste (with glue) in a paper copy of the book assignment... books are too expensive here i'm guessing...
peruvian kids seem to be obsessed with writing in different colors of pens... they seem to be taught from a young age to use a couple colors (red/black) when doing assignments... when they're missing one of the colors and you try and tell them just to use the one and it doesn't matter for the class if it's in all black or all red... they refuse and insist on borrowing from their friend and taking twice/3x as long to do the assignment...
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