Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion how are you typing your child's age?

is 2.3 (for example) 2 years and 3.6 months (12 x 0.3) or is it 2 years and 3 months?

I am going with 10ths; dd2.75=2y9m, if I want to say months, I usually put an 'y' and 'm'. But that's just me.

I would read 2.3 as 2 years 4 months just because I am fond of rounding

I often don't even get more specific than 2.5 on a non-milestone related post...

I use a decimal point for 10ths, but a colon if I want to indicate years and months. So:

4.5 = 4:6

Maybe that's just too confusing. I'd be happy to have it regularized.

BB

LOL ... I so haven't thought about this because I still say DDs age in months but next month she will be officially 2 1/2 so I will be interested to see what is the recommended notation methods.

I use years and months -- Ds is 6y7m. It seems the easiest way, no bothering with decimals on a 12-base calendar!

Huh. I use 4.5yo to round to four-and-a-half years old. I never take the time to count the months. I think I stopped that about the time DS4.5 hit 2yo because it was too much effort and I'm too lazy!

The lone exception is if we're talking about test-taking month, when specific month of age matters (and then I write it as 4y3m or whatever). Otherwise, I only work in half-year increments. I wouldn't ever write 4.3, only 4 or 4.5.

FWIW...

Now you got me. I may say 4.5 and mean four and a half but I hardly ever use that here. When I say DS6 was tested at 5.3 I mean 5 years 3 months. I think that's what people usually do when they talk about testing.

I would say every time you see anything else than .5 it means months especially when it refers to testing.

Come to think of it, I think that is why on the achievement results it reported that way. Because if you use a decimal, it's implicitly tenths. So 4:6 is a good way to make it clear you're speaking in months...

But we usually just round to the half year.

JB

I can go with that: 4.5 = four-and-a-half, and 4:5 = 4y5m.

Gets my vote!

Unless you specify the units, you cannot be sure you are communicating properly.

I like 4y6m rather than 4.5