SOLVING THE PROBLEM
The humor of the problem illustrate ing arithmetic is given point by a story which conies from Sweden. schoolmaster is credited with receiving the following note from a mother to excuse the absence of her son from class: — “Peter has been obliged to substitute for his father, who is a doorkeeper at a factory, while his father solves the problem you gave Peter. “My boy is too young to_ know how long it lakes a man walking at the rate of three-quarters of a mile an hour to walk ten and a-half times around a field one mile square. “ My husband left early this morning, but to work the problem he must walk a long time. I hope he will get home this evening and that Peter can go to school to-morrow.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19551, 9 May 1927, Page 5
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135SOLVING THE PROBLEM Evening Star, Issue 19551, 9 May 1927, Page 5
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