Friday, March 14, 2008

Child Logic...

Yesterday I was checking one of my daughter's math homework sheets. Here was the problem: You have 6 coins which together equal 37 cents, 3 of the coins are dimes, what are the other 3 coins?

She had written as an answer, "The other three coins are 7 pennies".

I pointed out to her that 7 pennies is 7 coins, not three. "How can you make 7 cents with three coins"? I asked.

OH! A nickle and two pennies? Yes.

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