Friday, 5/8/09
Prepare sheet for Test 58.
Monday, BE SURE TO HAVE WITH YOU: We will meet in the classroom and prep before we head for the library. Beginning Tuesday, we will meet in the library.

Mental Floss

  1. I have three of the same digits. Added together they make twelve. The digit is not 4. What is it?
  2. Why do black sheep eat less grass overall than white sheep?
  3. Without rearranging the letters that follow, make a word that is intelligible (that means understandable; in other words, a real word) by adding three more letters.   NTGB
  4. How can 1 and 5 = 4?
  5. I'm the best jumper in the school. I can jump the highest and the longest. But when Mr. Coward laid a pencil on the ground and told me to jump over it, I tried and I tried, and I just couldn't. Why?
  6. What are the next two numbers in the series?
    7, 14, 17, 21, 27, 28, 35, 37, ____, _____
  7. Fill in the blanks with four words, such that the first and the fourth are the same, while the second and the third are homonyms.

  8. A jailer ______  ______, and a jeweler ______  ______.
     
     
Test 58
For numbers one and two, click A, and then answer the questions on the back.