Saturday, September 29, 2007

Donuts and a Dog

On Monday I had my students read the following story. Then they had to find any "math problems" in the story and write expressions for them. An example is shown below.

One day, Michael and three more people decided that they were bored. For the past week, all they had done was watch the new Soldier Boy video and learn the dance. First they thought they should get a snack. They bought three packs of eight donuts. While they were eating their donuts, two fewer than the total number of boys decided to throw their donuts at a dog. They threw one-third of the total number of donuts and hit the dog in the face. The dog was upset for two more than three minutes, but then it realized “Hey! Those are donuts! and so it ate them.

While the dog was eating the donuts, one less than the total number of boys thought it would be a good idea to get something to drink. They bought a twelve pack and divided it evenly among the whole group. They drank their Mountain Dew while they watched the dog. The dog decided that it liked Mountain Dew, so it stole two out of the total number of sodas. Unfortunately, the dog doesn’t have any hands, and its teeth were really weak, so it couldn’t get the bottles open. It went home and cried.

1. Expression for total number of people, p = 1+3 =4

5 comments:

Nick Haywood said...

I bet all the students were upset because they know that it's actually, Soulja Boy.

Regardless, I only have a general ideas about what "Supermaning/Supersoaking that ho" means, but boy does it sound fun.

Nick Haywood said...

I bet all the students were upset because they know that it's actually, Soulja Boy.

Regardless, I only have a general ideas about what "Supermaning/Supersoaking that ho" means, but boy does it sound fun.

Mr. Blair said...

actually! one of my students told me that on Friday, 4 days after i totally botched it! i just laughed, b/c it showed my abject cluelessness so clearly.

i try sometimes, you know.

Nick Haywood said...

That is a pretty hilarious story though. It was everything a good story can have...drama, sadness, comedy. You should write more stories like that.

Nick Haywood said...

The people WANT MORE STORIES. Give the people what they want.