The Elder Goth - To the Multiple of Twelve

Prepare to complete homework for the duration of your life, especially when your chosen task is passing the knowledge on to younger impressionable minds. I am incapable of teaching anything, I suppose it's in best interest of the universe. Generally mathematics is a foreign language to me and like a tourist stumbling into non tourist corners of foreign countries I know enough to see me through without serious casualty. This particular go around was Multiplication. Eleven and twelve tables each to the twelfth value memorized fluently I grade school. As an adult you come to realize Multiplication holds its own in daily economics, in South Africa under British rule the currency denominations went to twelve when shillings were popular during the reign of King George as was the metric system standard favoured over the imperial system standard. As a kid I often wondered why this was and who made it so, trying to instill in my nine year old brain the need to know twelve times twelve equals one hundred and forty four because an adult said so was frustrating enough to infuriating levels of rebellious angst I committed to memory the cube root value of 6461 is 9 simply because my Casio digital calculator said so. My question remains, why do South African scholars still learn the eleven and twelve Multiplication tables when the currency is denominated to the value of ten and we measure in using the units of Celsius, meters and grams?

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