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Originally Posted by Cuse Fan
I told my 5th grade class all about Pal and his upcoming race ("If there are 8 furlongs in a mile, and Pal runs 1 1/16ths of a mile, how many furlongs has he run?"). I think I have 18 new converts to horse racing! Attached are a few of the good luck notes the kids gave me on the way out the door today. Too cute!
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That's awesome. I think horse racing is a great way to improve kids' math skills, since you have to think in something other than base ten, what with miles being divided into eight furlongs and 12 seconds being basically the base number from which you work out how fast a furlong went.
The gambling part of it is good for learning math, too, but I imagine parents might have issues about that.
