Among my other activities in life I am responsible for teaching 11-year-olds the finer points of mathematics. Math isn’t exactly everyone’s idea of entertainment, so I occasionally pepper in some lighter material as well. With some success. Here’s an example of me trying to be clever at school.<\/p>\n
Me: You know<\/em>\u00a0the word “gullible” is misspelled in the dictionary?<\/em><\/p>\n Eleven-year-old: What’s a dictionary?<\/em><\/p>\n Nice try, Boomer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Among my other activities in life I am responsible for teaching 11-year-olds the finer points of mathematics. Math isn’t exactly everyone’s idea of entertainment, so I occasionally pepper in some lighter material as well. With some success. Here’s an example … Continue reading