@blue “I remember when I first offered to pay her a small wage to work on her research from one of my grants,” he wrote. “She refused, saying she was not sure if it was right to be paid for thinking about math.”
The sentence "He has 8 more quarters than dimes." is often mistranslated by students into the equation 8 + q = d. This is an extremely common error in the usage of English to express daily counting and word problems. My question is: how can I explain in grammatical terms where the error in reason...