NOTE: Newest BTs in red, Bonuses in blue, comments in green, updates in purple. This brain teaser first appeared on 5/3/21. This is almost a ‘prime countdown day’. a) Why is it NOT? b) When will the next true prime countdown day occur? What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs? True or False? […]
Author: Larry Campbell
SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers, Mar/Apr ’21 BTs
REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration, please feel free to ask! Consider π, 3.14, and 22/7. Write them in order from smallest to largest, or, if any are equal, mark EQUAL in appropriate spots..3.14, π, 22/7. Anita Dixon, Frank Green, […]
Short Division and Student Understanding
Return with me briefly to my fourth grade school year (and bring your own dinosaur jokes with you). We’re headed to Mrs. Dice’s classroom at the end of the hall, where there’s a sharp right turn (both physical and metaphorical) into the 5th and 6th grade classrooms down that wing. As we sneak into the […]
Spice Market 2
Note the (too-fuzzy?) 1884 date above the archway.
Good Eating Advice
Probably tastes better that way?
Good Laundry Advice
Beware the Trojan Horse?
If there’s anything to the idea of reincarnation, then I’m going to go way out on a limb and suggest that Missouri Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick might have once been the PR point man for the Greeks in their battle with Troy. I can imagine the piece he would have written about that large horse sitting […]
Matterhorn2
Motel Promotion?
(I just also noticed the bottom line! HBO, CNN, Check. But ISPN? 🙂 )
