Learn Math with LEGO

Teaching fractions can be easier if you start with something a child is familiar with, like LEGO bricks. This introductory lesson is only good for the simplest fractions fractions based on a total of eight pips, but those are the ones they'll be using the rest of their lives to calculate parts of dollars and gallons (in America, that is). Seems like a genius idea to me, but I've never had LEGO bricks. Is this something schools and parents have been doing all along? -via Geeks Are Sexy

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I was pretty good at fractions because I knew how to cook. When you are doubling a recipe, you have to figure out how much is 2/3 cup and 2/3 cup. This Lego thing is great too.
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I had a friend who kept on having her meals stolen. So she finally started putting chewed up gum in the sandwich. And voila...the moment she heard someone scream or gag she found the culprit...her boss. O_o
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For every measure there is a counter-measure and eventually a counter-counter-measure.

If a protected sandwich gets stolen, you can leave an actual moldy sandwich in its place. The thief will think
"Heh, I'm not fooled by fake mold!" and chow down.

My Dad claimed he replaced the whiskey in his dorm room with kerosene and waited in the next room to hear the janitor sneak in for a wee dram. He never lost any again.

If your work requires you to pass random drug testing, you can grind up some legal poppy-seeds and mix with the sandwich. Apparently these give a false positive. For the ethically ambivalent, you could insert actual material (horse tranquilizers, BC leaf, etc).
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