That's it, I'm dropping out of 3rd grade. I've reached my limit of helping Bronson with his homework I guess! Okay, I can still do 3rd grade math, but now they put Bronson in the Continental Math League . Math group for smarties. I was excited for him - he was going to be challenged.
Then his homework came home, and now I am challenged - in more way than one. :)
Get a load of this math problem (it's a word problem, so I'll just skip ahead to the numbers):
When they were packing up for the trip, they had put on sixth of the food packets into the separate pack. Then Ken had packed two fifths of the packets left. Next Darlene put one half of what was left in her pack. Then Kelly and Kasey each packed one third of what was left. Finally kendra put the last 5 packets in her pack. How many packets did the family begin with altogether for the trip?
Barry sat at my desk for 20 minutes scribbling down figures and couldn't come up with an answer. So we pretty much gave up. I was never a big fan of math - especially fractions. :/
3 comments:
Is the answer 60?
Yep - 60 it is. After I slept on it, and reworked it, that's what I came up with. So maybe there's hope for me afterall? haha
Sheesh! Why can't all the kids just put an equal number of packets into their packs? That would be the fair thing to do... I'm not looking forward to Ruby's homework...
Tara - don't be such a smarty pants. :) ha ha,
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