Visuals

I personally hate numbers. I hate math. I hate figuring out percentages when I'm buying something on sale (my, probably 5th grade, way to do this is finding 10% which is obviously just the first number roughly and multiplying it by whatever percentage it is = this jacket on sale is $60, 40% off, 10% of 60 is 6, 6X4 is 24, 60 minus 24 is 36! And yes, I used a calculator for that subtraction). Anyway! I digress. I came across a blog on the NYT web site that has very simple visuals to represent numbers. Besides making me hungry (I'm pretty sure they used m&m's without the m on it), I thought this was a clean, nice way to visually depict something. Remember those counting beans we used in 3rd grade to learn math? I remember a classmate having to go to the nurse because he got one stuck up his nose. Obviously. Enjoy!