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Old 04-19-2013, 08:22 PM
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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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Old 04-19-2013, 08:26 PM
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That's so cool!
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Old 04-20-2013, 06:07 AM
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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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With a fan club like that, Pal's a winner already !!!!
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Old 04-20-2013, 07:53 AM
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Good luck to all the owners today! Lets get him his first W
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Old 04-20-2013, 12:02 PM
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that's so great, gotta love a kid's perspective - win or lose tell them their thoughts were appreciated (and what a great teacher they have)! good luck and safe trips to Pal today, will be good to see him back on the track...
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Old 04-20-2013, 03:33 PM
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good luck Pal
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Old 04-20-2013, 04:01 PM
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Old 04-20-2013, 04:37 PM
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Is it me, or did it seem like Pal was going well on the backside only to wrangled back for some reason? For a second, it looked like he was being pulled up or something. It just seemed like an odd way to ride him
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Old 04-21-2013, 12:38 PM
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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.
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Old 04-21-2013, 07:26 PM
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The gambling part of it is good for learning math, too, but I imagine parents might have issues about that.
6th grade math exam should include.... Not including breakage,how much do you collect on $20 bucks to win at odds of 9/2 ?
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Old 04-21-2013, 07:24 PM
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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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Good stuff. Love that.
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