Lola by Todd Clark for January 02, 2025

Won’t texting do?

I hated those questions when I was in school!

Those were fun. I could always find a way to get the answer without the math. But when the teacher said we had to “Show our solution” then I was in trouble.

East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet. Unless there’s another twain on the same twack.

Under Lola’s solution, there wouldn’t be a problem.

Never did like (OR do well) trying to solve story problems…..

I just hope the track signals are working properly.

When does the train wreck occur

Frazz had an arc on this a week ago. The topic of relevance still remains in both takes on story problems and today’s school kids.

Ah. DIRT problems. Distance Is Rate multiplied by Time. Fairly easy if you know how to do them. Start first by converting the sentence for each person’s travelling into a mathematical expression. The rest depends on what you want to solve for, time, rate or distance. Consult a middle school algebra book for further information. Have fun.

hopefully they’re not on the same track heading toward each other!!

Math was my weakest subject in school. These questions are one of the many reasons why.

My favorite of that ilk is: “A train is heading toward a crossing from exactly a mile away at exactly 60 miles per hour. A car is heading toward the same crossing from the same distance at the same speed. Does the driver of the car get across?”

Yes. A white marble one!