Anyone any good at maths ?
Oct 16th 2009, 1:53 pm
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Re: Anyone any good at maths ?
Found this by way of an explanation:
http://www.braingle.com/brainteasers...d=25007;comm=0
but.... dudes word GHOSTS was in a pyramid G (x1) at the top and S (x6) at the bottom and we were not told which path we could take. Hubby still insists the answer is 720
http://www.braingle.com/brainteasers...d=25007;comm=0
but.... dudes word GHOSTS was in a pyramid G (x1) at the top and S (x6) at the bottom and we were not told which path we could take. Hubby still insists the answer is 720
Oct 16th 2009, 4:15 pm
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Re: Anyone any good at maths ?
If you can only move directly down one line, or down one line and one letter to the right, each letter has only two places to go to: 2^5=32
QED, but nutty if you don't know the rules.
QED, but nutty if you don't know the rules.
Oct 18th 2009, 11:51 pm
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Oct 19th 2009, 4:22 am
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Re: Anyone any good at maths ?
OMG! DH won't let this go - insisted I ask the teacher whether dude wrote the problem down correctly so here is my e-mail and teachers reply:
I was wondering if you could tell us whether or not ***** wrote down
the maths challenge properly this week. I know he missed out the part
about the answer being 2 digits. My husband is still insisting the
answer is 720 LOL ! If nothing else it has started a huge maths
debate in the house.
I would have to see his weekly challenge paper to know if he copied it correctly. I will look at it today. There is a doubling(powers of
2)pattern. Every time you add a letter to the word, the number of words
in the triangle doubles. Ghosts is a 6 letter word so the number of
ghosts is 2 to the 6th power which is 64. I will discuss this again
with ***** today. I think he was reading something into the problem
that made it a lot harder then it was. I actually told them the answer
was 32 because that is what the author of the problem said it was. But
he says it is 2 to the 6th power and in my calculation that is 64. Glad
to see this is really challenging. That is what I want them to do.
Errr so....is it 32 or 64 ???????
I was wondering if you could tell us whether or not ***** wrote down
the maths challenge properly this week. I know he missed out the part
about the answer being 2 digits. My husband is still insisting the
answer is 720 LOL ! If nothing else it has started a huge maths
debate in the house.
I would have to see his weekly challenge paper to know if he copied it correctly. I will look at it today. There is a doubling(powers of
2)pattern. Every time you add a letter to the word, the number of words
in the triangle doubles. Ghosts is a 6 letter word so the number of
ghosts is 2 to the 6th power which is 64. I will discuss this again
with ***** today. I think he was reading something into the problem
that made it a lot harder then it was. I actually told them the answer
was 32 because that is what the author of the problem said it was. But
he says it is 2 to the 6th power and in my calculation that is 64. Glad
to see this is really challenging. That is what I want them to do.
Errr so....is it 32 or 64 ???????
Oct 19th 2009, 4:25 am
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Re: Anyone any good at maths ?
OMG! DH won't let this go - insisted I ask the teacher whether dude wrote the problem down correctly so here is my e-mail and teachers reply:
I was wondering if you could tell us whether or not ***** wrote down
the maths challenge properly this week. I know he missed out the part
about the answer being 2 digits. My husband is still insisting the
answer is 720 LOL ! If nothing else it has started a huge maths
debate in the house.
I would have to see his weekly challenge paper to know if he copied it correctly. I will look at it today. There is a doubling(powers of
2)pattern. Every time you add a letter to the word, the number of words
in the triangle doubles. Ghosts is a 6 letter word so the number of
ghosts is 2 to the 6th power which is 64. I will discuss this again
with ***** today. I think he was reading something into the problem
that made it a lot harder then it was. I actually told them the answer
was 32 because that is what the author of the problem said it was. But
he says it is 2 to the 6th power and in my calculation that is 64. Glad
to see this is really challenging. That is what I want them to do.
Errr so....is it 32 or 64 ???????
I was wondering if you could tell us whether or not ***** wrote down
the maths challenge properly this week. I know he missed out the part
about the answer being 2 digits. My husband is still insisting the
answer is 720 LOL ! If nothing else it has started a huge maths
debate in the house.
I would have to see his weekly challenge paper to know if he copied it correctly. I will look at it today. There is a doubling(powers of
2)pattern. Every time you add a letter to the word, the number of words
in the triangle doubles. Ghosts is a 6 letter word so the number of
ghosts is 2 to the 6th power which is 64. I will discuss this again
with ***** today. I think he was reading something into the problem
that made it a lot harder then it was. I actually told them the answer
was 32 because that is what the author of the problem said it was. But
he says it is 2 to the 6th power and in my calculation that is 64. Glad
to see this is really challenging. That is what I want them to do.
Errr so....is it 32 or 64 ???????
well at least it looks like the teacher is just as confused as everyone else! 
Oct 19th 2009, 4:31 am
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Re: Anyone any good at maths ?
I am starting to have my doubts about the local school district in general check out this e-mail I sent the other day to our local High School and read the reply very carefully:
My name is *** and I have a child, *** who is
in Grade 5 at ***. I have had a couple of phone
calls recently saying that a child of mine has missed 1 or more
periods of class. I am thinking that perhaps someone else has my
telephone number on their file as *** is not at High School and has
no way of skipping class even if he wanted too. Could you check your
records - our telephone number is ***.
I will look into it and take care of it, sorry for the incontinence.
What a shi**y reply LOL !
My name is *** and I have a child, *** who is
in Grade 5 at ***. I have had a couple of phone
calls recently saying that a child of mine has missed 1 or more
periods of class. I am thinking that perhaps someone else has my
telephone number on their file as *** is not at High School and has
no way of skipping class even if he wanted too. Could you check your
records - our telephone number is ***.
I will look into it and take care of it, sorry for the incontinence.
What a shi**y reply LOL !
Oct 19th 2009, 4:38 am
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Re: Anyone any good at maths ?
I am starting to have my doubts about the local school district in general check out this e-mail I sent the other day to our local High School and read the reply very carefully:
My name is *** and I have a child, *** who is
in Grade 5 at ***. I have had a couple of phone
calls recently saying that a child of mine has missed 1 or more
periods of class. I am thinking that perhaps someone else has my
telephone number on their file as *** is not at High School and has
no way of skipping class even if he wanted too. Could you check your
records - our telephone number is ***.
I will look into it and take care of it, sorry for the incontinence.
What a shi**y reply LOL !
My name is *** and I have a child, *** who is
in Grade 5 at ***. I have had a couple of phone
calls recently saying that a child of mine has missed 1 or more
periods of class. I am thinking that perhaps someone else has my
telephone number on their file as *** is not at High School and has
no way of skipping class even if he wanted too. Could you check your
records - our telephone number is ***.
I will look into it and take care of it, sorry for the incontinence.
What a shi**y reply LOL !
Oct 19th 2009, 5:01 am
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Re: Anyone any good at maths ?
I am starting to have my doubts about the local school district in general check out this e-mail I sent the other day to our local High School and read the reply very carefully:
My name is *** and I have a child, *** who is
in Grade 5 at ***. I have had a couple of phone
calls recently saying that a child of mine has missed 1 or more
periods of class. I am thinking that perhaps someone else has my
telephone number on their file as *** is not at High School and has
no way of skipping class even if he wanted too. Could you check your
records - our telephone number is ***.
I will look into it and take care of it, sorry for the incontinence.
What a shi**y reply LOL !
My name is *** and I have a child, *** who is
in Grade 5 at ***. I have had a couple of phone
calls recently saying that a child of mine has missed 1 or more
periods of class. I am thinking that perhaps someone else has my
telephone number on their file as *** is not at High School and has
no way of skipping class even if he wanted too. Could you check your
records - our telephone number is ***.
I will look into it and take care of it, sorry for the incontinence.
What a shi**y reply LOL !
Oct 19th 2009, 5:03 am
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Re: Anyone any good at maths ?
To add to that recently my 1st grader brought home some work he had done in class. He had listed some of his favourite things, on it he had put Legos which had been corrected by his teacher to Lego's 
Oct 19th 2009, 1:36 pm
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Oct 19th 2009, 2:05 pm
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Re: Anyone any good at maths ?
Oct 19th 2009, 2:36 pm
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Re: Anyone any good at maths ?
OMG! DH won't let this go - insisted I ask the teacher whether dude wrote the problem down correctly so here is my e-mail and teachers reply:
I was wondering if you could tell us whether or not ***** wrote down
the maths challenge properly this week. I know he missed out the part
about the answer being 2 digits. My husband is still insisting the
answer is 720 LOL ! If nothing else it has started a huge maths
debate in the house.
I would have to see his weekly challenge paper to know if he copied it correctly. I will look at it today. There is a doubling(powers of
2)pattern. Every time you add a letter to the word, the number of words
in the triangle doubles. Ghosts is a 6 letter word so the number of
ghosts is 2 to the 6th power which is 64. I will discuss this again
with ***** today. I think he was reading something into the problem
that made it a lot harder then it was. I actually told them the answer
was 32 because that is what the author of the problem said it was. But
he says it is 2 to the 6th power and in my calculation that is 64. Glad
to see this is really challenging. That is what I want them to do.
Errr so....is it 32 or 64 ???????
I was wondering if you could tell us whether or not ***** wrote down
the maths challenge properly this week. I know he missed out the part
about the answer being 2 digits. My husband is still insisting the
answer is 720 LOL ! If nothing else it has started a huge maths
debate in the house.
I would have to see his weekly challenge paper to know if he copied it correctly. I will look at it today. There is a doubling(powers of
2)pattern. Every time you add a letter to the word, the number of words
in the triangle doubles. Ghosts is a 6 letter word so the number of
ghosts is 2 to the 6th power which is 64. I will discuss this again
with ***** today. I think he was reading something into the problem
that made it a lot harder then it was. I actually told them the answer
was 32 because that is what the author of the problem said it was. But
he says it is 2 to the 6th power and in my calculation that is 64. Glad
to see this is really challenging. That is what I want them to do.
Errr so....is it 32 or 64 ???????
What a farce. The teacher clearly has no idea whatsoever. Is she a dedicated Math teacher, or a general homeroom teacher?
Oct 19th 2009, 2:38 pm
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Oct 19th 2009, 2:40 pm
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Re: Anyone any good at maths ?
