Tonight, Mom came home from school with a rather humorous story to tell me. Each day, she has a problem of the day to give her students something to do while she checks their homework.
Today’s problem was:
“John wanted to buy an item that costs $358.72 and decides to mow lawns to earn that money. At $20.00 per lawn, how many lawns would it take John to make enough money to buy his item, and how much would he have left over?”
As she was checking around the room, Mom got to one of her students who asked, in a tiny, little voice, “Mrs. Gibson, how many yards are there in a lawn?”