Today’s maths children!
If it takes two men, each approximately 550 centimetres tall, weighing approximately 180 pounds each, twenty hours to build a wall, twelve metres long and three metres high with a width of thirty centimetres, using concrete which is fifty percent water 30 percent sand and thirty percent cement, what did they have for breakfast?
When I was teaching mental arithmetic was a daily task, sometimes mid way through reading the question I would invent an alternative outcome, it did give the lesson an injection of humour! lol!
That takes me back Denise - at Grammar school we had mental arithmetic every morning - and by golly it has stood me in good stead throughout my life!
ReplyDeleteAre we going to manage that lunch?
50 per cent water, 30 sand and 30 cement? That's 110 per cent!
ReplyDeleteNice take on modern maths. Not Math - as the Americans insist on calling it!
Well done Morning AJ - you spotted today's deliberate mistake - 1 house point!
ReplyDeleteHouse points! Kids today probably don't know what house points are. (And I think that's only about the third I ever earned - so thank you.)
ReplyDeleteI hated problems in Maths. I've always wondered why Americans say Math instead of Maths like us.
ReplyDeleteThis is when numbers just swirl around in my head and I think of writing poetry! Strangely, I was good at Maths, but didn't enjoy it! Great little 55!
ReplyDeletethey drank the extra 10 % water? have to for so giant a men...18 feet...skinny too or that height...did i convert that right? nice 55.
ReplyDeletegood there are teachers like you - bet your pupils found out what they had for breakfast…guess a lot when they worked that hard..
ReplyDeletemine is here
50 percent water, 30 percent sand, and 30 percent cement? That's 110 percent. Hmm, must have added that oatmeal he was supposed to eat for breakfast. ;)
ReplyDeleteMy maths teachers didn't have a sense of humour, more's the pity. I might have learnt something if they had!
ReplyDeleteHouse points, merits and demerits are alive and kicking in schools in the south and west!
Nice one. I do love teasers ;-)
ReplyDeleteI don't know what they had for breakfast, but I hope there was plenty, for having to do all that hard work!
ReplyDeleteWORD VERIFICATION: tomatsar
DEFINITION: the leader of the agricultural nation
Haha! Obviously three Weetabix! LOL!
ReplyDeleteOh, I gave it up with the words "today's maths." Do you need me to tell you what subject I did well with in school?
ReplyDeleteClever 55.
What a funny 55. I'm American so didn't get the maths or housepoints referrals. I did enjoy your deliberate mistake.
ReplyDeleteMine's (55) Fifteen is far too young . . .
Your classes sound like so much fun ;-)
ReplyDeleteOh you Brits!!
ReplyDeleteHouse Points?
Love those retro references.
Excellent 55 Mrs Nesbitt.
Thank you so much for playing, and have a Kick Ass Week-End
What a nightmare ! I hated math at school and still hate it, sorry, lol !
ReplyDeleteBut men of 5m 50 tall ??? they must be giants and have at least 50 scrambled eggs and 100 sausages for breakfast before the wall breaks down because of a leak of cement !
Sounds like more fun than the problems I had to solve at school. Very inventive 55.
ReplyDeleteMine’s here.
I'm just wondering what color their eyes were? :)
ReplyDeleteFun 55! And you must've been an excellent teacher! Humor is always in style.
xo