Thursday, May 12, 2005

Problem solving

Our youngest had the following problem in his math homework the other day (I don't remember exact wording): "One student brings a brown bag lunch to school every day for a year. This generates 67 lbs of trash. If everyone in your class brings bag lunches to school for a year, how much trash will that make?" He crunched the numbers.

The next question: "What could you do to reduce the amount of trash?" His answer: "Home school."

mrs james

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