Kai comes up to me with these word problems this morning, claiming they don't make sense.
18. Three-eighths of the guests at the picnic ate hamburgers. One-half of those people had mustard on their hamburgers. What part of the people at the picnic had hamburgers with mustard?
19. If there were 48 people at the picnic (#18), how many had hamburgers? How many had hamburgers with mustard?
"See," he says, "this is just an example of how ridiculous these questions are! They don't make sense!"
"No," says I, "they DO make sense. You have to figure out HOW MANY people, not a fraction, had hamburgers. And HOW MANY of THOSE people had them with mustard..."
Kai sagely replies, "Oh, that's easy. All 48 people had hamburgers. Everyone loves hamburgers!" And he was thinking, but didn't actually say, "And none of them had mustard, because mustard is gross!"*
*For the record, mustard is NOT gross. It tastes even better with jalapenos mixed in. I'm the only one who likes mustard in my family so far.
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when i was little my mother would take us to get corndogs she would use mustard with them my sister and I would not. (Ketchup for us)
Now as an adult who misses her mother (passed away when i was 25) I use mustard.
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