Last Problem:
It is 7 miles to the train, then 33 miles to town. How long is the round trip?
Answer:
80 miles (40 miles each way x 2 trips)
Today’s Problem
The four angles in a quadrilateral add up to how many degrees?
Math to Do in Your Head
Previous Question:
Who was the first person to propose the idea of daylight-saving time?
Answer:
Benjamin Franklin first suggested the idea of daylight-saving time back in 1784.
Today’s Problem:
It is 7 miles to the train, then 33 miles to town. How long is the round trip?
Daylight Savings
Last Problem
Is the following true or false?
You should not freeze water in plastic bottles, as it can release carcinogenic dioxins from the bottle into the water.
Answer:
False
This is a hoax that was circulated on the Internet a few years ago. Althought there are likely to be dioxins in plastic water bottles (and there is still some debate on that issue), freezing them is not known to cause a chemical release to occur.
Today’s Question:
Who was the first person to propose the idea of daylight-saving time?
Plastic Water Bottles
Yesterday’s Question:
What is a female college graduate called?
Answer:
alumna
Today’s Problem
Is the following true or false?
You should not freeze water in plastic bottles, as it can release carcinogenic dioxins from the bottle into the water.
College Graduates
Last Question:
What do you call the thinnest and smallest blood vessels?
Answer:
capillaries
Today’s Question:
What is a female college graduate called?
Blood Vessels
Last Problem:
Give the most degrees an obtuse angle can have.
Answer:
179 degrees. Remember that 180 degrees is a straight line or straight angle! Now this one should refresh those neural networks.
Today’s Question:
What do you call the thinnest and smallest blood vessels?
Obtuse Angles
Yesterday’s Challenge:
Turn the word “peach” into the opposite of “expensive.”
Answer:
cheap
Today’s Problem:
Give the most degrees an obtuse angle can have.
Word Garble
Last Problem:
What word can you remove one letter from it to make a new word, then take another letter off and get yet another word, and so on until there is only one letter left, still making yet a different word?
Answer:
“restarted”
restarted, restated, restate, estate, state, sate, sat, at, a
Today’s Challenge:
Turn the word “peach” into the opposite of “expensive.”
One Letter Left
Last Problem:
What rule can you apply to each of the following words to make new words of them all?
adds, ants, inks, ohms, sheer, star
The answer is to…
Answer:
Replace each letter with the next letter of the alphabet – adds becomes beet, ants becomes bout, etc.
Today’s Problem:
What word can you remove one letter from it to make a new word, then take another letter off and get yet another word, and so on until there is only one letter left, still making yet a different word?
What is the Word Rule Here?
Last problem:
What is the common link between these words:
threshold, taciturn, signature, redress, misspelling, lambaste, hockey, decoration
Answer:
Each word is made up of two shorter words which are joined by a common letter. The second word starts on the same letter as the first word ends on. threshold => thresh and hold, taciturn => tacit and turn, etc.
Today’s Problem:
What rule can you apply to each of the following words to make new words of them all?
adds, ants, inks, ohms, sheer, star
The answer is to…