The reason for waiting until the bear is 15 ft away is to make sure the spray doesn’t disperse in the air. If the Pepper Spray is too spread out it will not stop the bear.
I started my maths workshop in Hamburg by stirring up some friendly rivalry. And what better way to do this than by using statistics.
Which is the biggest country?
Australia is 21.5 times the area of Germany. So I counted off 22 workshop participants and pointed to one saying ‘Your’re Germany! Ha!’ Here’s another way to compare areas:
Which country has the largest population?
Germany has 3.5 times the population of Australia.
But the really interesting questions are:
Who drinks more beer?
Who eats more meat?
Here are the answers to these and other interesting questions from the introduction to my workshop with apologies to Brisbane and Perth:
Here are some amazing ways to make middle school maths AMAZING:
Once upon a time, Grade 2 students did very boring work in maths. And they had to do lots of tests too.
Sometimes evil witches wrote the test questions. These Year 2 (Grade 2) questions were very, very scary. Here is one of those very scary questions. It was so scary lots of people turned into angry birds when they saw this question. The angry birds tweeted that this question is ” too hard’. Tweet! Tweet! (The Telegraph , UK, 9 May, 2016)
A very wise old Mathspig worked out the answer.
X -19 +17 = 63
X = 65
Mmmmm, this is a scary question for Grade 2.
Many Grade 2 teachers are Wonderful Maths Wizards. They make maths magical and fun everyday. Students must sharpen their pencils and put on their wizards thinking hats to practise their maths. But maths can be magical and fun too. So here is:
A MATHS FAIRY STORY
by Mathspig
A Wonderful Maths Wizard teacher can read the story out loud and the little Grade 2 Maths Wizards can write down their answers.
