Drew and Rachel were driving to Michael's, the craft store tonight to get materials to make a poster to greet veterans at the airport tomorrow for Veterans Day -- it's a Daisy Scout thing -- and Rachel asked Drew to give her some word problems.
He started off with simple problems such as, if I have 12 blueberry pies, and if my relatives come over and eat 12, how many do I have left? By the time they got to Michael's, they were up to: What's 2x times 3x squared? Rachel even got the concept of CUBED. He explained to her about what cubed means and she got the concept very quickly. "X rectangled? X triangled? Something shaped!" she exclaimed. But when he said "X cubed," she replied, "Whoa!" then added, "Oh, I get it. Because a cube is made up of lots of squares. So, it's more than squared."
I am running out of steam for word problems. David Lednicer, we need to you to come back because Rachel is definitely ready for a lesson in fluid dynamics.
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