Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for January 22, 2016

Not bad if I do say so myself with Janet’s and Mario’s 3-D squares; they’re learning their best to draw.

Gracie should have drawn a hypercube.

I certainly agree with Gracie’s observation.

Is this not called a “cube” in English?

@Hekko, yes. I’m a teacher, btw.

Gracie really is a blockhead.

It’s all along the same line as telling kids they are great at something when they are terrible, or mediocre. That does them a disservice. Not everyone is a sports person, or an artist or a musician. How about giving these kids advice on how to make their drawings BETTER? You can still encourage them with words like “Good attempt. Good try”. Even, “good job….now how about we put this line HERE”, or something like that. You have to teach kids REALITY because otherwise they will be shocked when they get into the real world and find out they really ARE NOT GREAT.

Janet and Mario are going to be so screwed when they get into the real world . . . but they will feel good about themselves.

You can thank our, ‘protect the childrens self esteem’, BS society.

Sorry Gracie.

3D square isn’t even a good definition, and certainly is too long for a name. Names are “cube”, “d6”, and defined as a “regular polyhedron consisting of six sides”. It is one of the five “Platonic solids” (polygons whose sides are regular polygons): tetrahedron, four triangles; hexahedron, six squares; octahedron, eight triangles; dodecahedron, twelve pentagons; and icosohedron, twenty triangles.

For once, I agree with you, Graice.

my niece and i both love the dodecahedron. it’s her favorite part of the phantom tollbooth. a wonderful book for encouraging learning, imagination, conquering the impossible, and driving back ignorance, looking at things from somebody else;s point of view,….

or what to call a cube either…

This is the first time I’ve encountered the term “3-D square”. I think the teacher’s a blockhead..Would she call a sphere a “3-D circle”? Or would that be a cylinder? Does she even know the difference? Does she think a square is a “2-D line”?

Common core… everyone’s equal….

JB Beat me to the punch

Participation Trophy.

And I do believe they are called “cubes” in old English.