Hungry Monkey
Posted by bibliomom Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:43:38 GMT
My son came to me last week, with a book full of story problems.
“M-om,” he whined, “I hate problems like this!”
Since I knew he’d woken up in CRM (Cranky Wookie Mode), I tried to be sympathetic.
“What kind of problems?”
“This kind! ‘If Tina has five doughnuts and Bob has ten doughnuts, and they go to the bakery and get fifteen cookies … ’ that kind of problem!”
Ah, I thought, the curse of the story problems, and went for humor.
“It’s like Mr. Bockel with the pretzels in The Number Devil, huh? Well, story problems aren’t that bad, you just have to find the information you need to solve the problem …”
Monkey howled in frustration.
“It’s not that, Mom! It’s just that there’s all that delicious sounding food, and I’m so hungry!”
