I make it 23
the blues are 6, the orange are 4 yellow are 8
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1/2 blue=3
1/2 yellow=4
1/2 red=2
(3+3+2)x4=32
How does your 23 work?
Yes...as you see I did use BODMAS.
As a boy in Junior school, I was away when this was introduced. At the first Maths lesson after my return, the master, forgetting this, asked me:
"What is Bodmas?" (This is how I heard it, so have written it that way...)
I thought for a second or two then thinking of Christmas, Michaelmas, etc, said: "Is it somebody's birthday, sir?" (Thinking...' I've never heard of St Bod!')
Even today I think that was a fairly intelligent answer under the circumstances - I must have been about 7 years old! However, all the others laughed and I received the customary caning! Such a cruel world!
Ah, Cam, I also remember the rather frequent canings!
(These were administered in RC school by nuns, in the infant school we got a slap on the legs, or a swipe of a large jam spoon on the palm of the hand.) Ouch!
Fortunately I passed my 11 plus and went to St. Dominics Convent School For Girls, and the only punishment doled out was either detention, or bad marks - the most serious was a conduct mark. Three of those and you were out on your ear!
Being a bit of a rebel, needless to say, I trod on very, very thin ice!
Fortunately, our maths teacher was a MAN! Several of us had a crush on him, and never scived off a lesson which paid us well in our O and A level GCE results!
Well, I never attended a school which was RC, but have taught in a few. In the state system we were methodically caned all the way through to 6th form! I seems to have been a feature of that period of history rather than who ran the school. I did work in one Primary school (I usually taught Secondary) for a very short while. The head was a nun who was prone to grab the average yob by the shoulders when he was misbehaving, and shake him violently !! She was, of course, a Sister of Mercy!! I used to muse on what it might be that she talked about in confession!
Solved, but with difficulty on 2 and 3 as each contains a "spelling" error!! Made it more interesting though...please do not shoot the perpetrator!
The error in number 2 puzzled me as I could not see what a geographical feature in the Holy Land had to do with anything...Number 3 meant I had to think laterally as to how somebody unfamiliar with a word might spell it!!
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