Author: Larry Campbell
Brain Teasers – March/April ’21
NOTE: Newest BTs in red, Bonuses in blue, comments in green, updates in purple. 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.. Are there any days this year (’21) where the day# times the month# = the year# [21]? When […]
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 […]
SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers; Jan/Feb ’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! Why are some folks already looking forward to Jan 1, ’23 at 5:08:13? The date lists the first 7 digits of the Fibonacci Sequence. (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34, . . .) Rita Barger, […]
Herman in the Hospital
Death-Defying Goats!!
These extreme goats are actually grazing – they are licking the stones of the dam in Italy’s Gran Paradiso National Park for their salts and minerals.
Quotes of Steven Wright
(Copied from Wikipedia 🙂 ): Steven Alexander Wright is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and film producer. He is known for his distinctly lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical and sometimes nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, non sequiturs, anti-humor, and one-liners with contrived situations. The Quotes of Steven Wright: * I’d kill for […]
Teachers’ Shots & Student Understanding
Two topics have been pulling at me recently. Here’s a quick look at both: Back to School. And Teachers. Again. Back-to-school talk is growing, and it seems almost everyone is on board. Parents, for the most part, are anxious (and of course, one empathizes with many of the reasons). Students themselves seem excited – also […]
