Contact MargaretCan You Solve this Puzzle?
April 30th, 2008 Categories: Random Topics
Have you ever seen the The Washington Post feature called PAGE THREE / Homework Headaches? There was a homework headache last week titled ”a puzzling encounter with 5th grade math.” Here it is… give it a try…
The instructions: “Write operation signs in the following number sequences to make every equation true. The first problem is done for you.”
It turns out the solution is easier than you imagined – a matter of spacing, and not a complicated math formula. In fact, it’s kind of a “life lesson” – many of the things we labor over are really not as complicated as we make them. The answer appears below. 
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Margaret,
I did get this right, but I was tempted to make it more complicated than it needed to be. Sometimes we just need to keep things simple, and they will turn out alright! Hope you are doing well.