Thursday, May 24, 2012

Tomato Soup

It's late! I'm grading papers, and things seem to get funnier as the night goes on. Here's a word problem that a sixth grade student created that just made me laugh:

"I am having to take a bath with tomato soup, because I have the smell of a skunk. The can of the soup has a height of 9 and a diameter of 6 feet. What is the surface area?"