Thursday, October 4, 2007

School as Haiku

There are twelve Australian students currently visiting the high school where I work, and I was just asked to translate the instructions to a math worksheet from Japanese into English for them. The instructions were:

As you feel the melancholy of a deepening Autumn, and gazing into the sky brings tears to your eyes, let me cheer you up with a few sentimental questions.

It then went on to talk about the probability of rolling three dice and getting a 13.

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