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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Homework



Rachel doesn’t like homework. When I tell her that I understand about her dislike, she has said many times that if I understand, then I shouldn’t make her do it. In December she brought home some extra credit math homework. But there was a twist. This was an assignment for one of her parents to do. She gave it to Judy to complete. I got to sit back and watch the role reversal. There were nine problems. Here are two:

Instructions
Solve the inequality and graph your solution
  1. 3b – 6 > 7(b + 2)
  2. A video game system costs $185 and one video game costs $14.95. You can spend no more than $280 on the system and games. What is the greatest number of games you can buy?
Above is the grade Judy received…

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