Brain benders.HEY HEY Hull and East Yorkshire (UK city and district) KIDS If you believe that anything is possible, try to get your head around these brain benders. A FISH IN WATER This fish swims the wrong way! Can you make this fish swim in the other direction by only moving three pencils? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cake upside Upside The potential dollar amount by which the market or a stock could rise. Notes: This is basically an educated guess on how high a stock could go in the near future. See also: Bull, Downside down [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Baker twins love cake, but they could never agree on which way to start eating their Mother's awesome Upside Down Chocolate chocolate, general term for the products of the seeds of the cacao or chocolate tree, used for making beverages or confectionery. The flavor of chocolate depends not only on the quality of the cocoa nibs (the remainder after the seeds are fermented, dried, and Cheesecake. Was the bottom the top or was the top the bottom? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Make your own Upside Down Cake like the one shown here using 10 pencils. Can you turn the cake right side up by moving just three pencils? Lunch room The Grade 3, 4, 5 and 6 teachers at Rockford Rockford, industrial city (1990 pop. 139,426), seat of Winnebago co., N Ill., on the Rock River near the Wis. line; inc. 1839 with the merger of two settlements on opposite sides of the river. School wanted to eat lunch with their students. However, once they brought in their tables and chairs they realized that they took up one-quarter of the school lunch room. Can they divide up the rest of the lunch room so that each of the four grades has an equal share of the remaining space? To figure this out, get together with a few of your lunch pals and gather up 28 pens or pencils. Use 16 pens or pencils to build the walls of the room. Using four more, section off one-quarter of the room the teachers will use. Using the eight remaining pens or pencils, figure out how to divide the rest of the lunch room so that each of the four grades has an equal amount of space. |
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