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Make Math Obvious - by Sebastian Gutierrez

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If we have a pickaxe that lasts about 40 blocks, and we have to dig down at 100 blocks, and we need the tunnel to be 3 blocks wide and 3 blocks tall, roughly how many pickaxes will we need?

Later, they would purposefully make their own pickaxes to add to whatever random number of pickaxes we made for them, so we had to stop that game.

We’d discuss how a maximum number of lunches could be served per 10 minutes at their school, so if too many kids lined up at lunch, the line would back up.

We’d discuss whether our family weights were over the weight limit and whether we should “kick a member” off the elevator because otherwise, it might crash.

As mentioned above, reading through it to edit, it might seem that the takeaway is to constantly trick your kids (maybe?!, but in a very light-hearted and fun-loving way).

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