Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 18, 2024

Calvin is better off breaking stuff for a living.

It looks more like the first problem finished you, Calvin.

It’s okay, he’ll just repeat the grade until he gets it!!!

I thought Calvin was running away from home in light of that parent-teacher conference. What happened??

Nice to see Watterson using ‘lose’ and ‘loose’ correctly. Unlike a lot of people posting online.

I I hope no one lived on those planets.

Now you have to pay for having a spiffing time……

Being the first problem is difficult enough. Now there’s math.

If this were not just a cartoon comic, Calvin’s parents would need to enroll him in an afterschool tutoring program to raise his grades.

He scratched and pocketed the cue ball.

Obveeously spaceman spiff is experiencing time dilation effects from that near light speed space travel.

Calvin just taking math to a different level :)

Planetary scale problems take longer to solve.

I love how Calvin arrives at his answers, albeit they’re always incorrect.

If only Hobbes was there to help Calvin. I’m sure he could have gotten the test finished much faster. Accuracy, on the other hand, wouldn’t necessarily be the main priority.

I have to empathize with Calvin here. I never experienced time going by so fast as I did a looooong time ago in college when taking some of my exams in physics and organic chemistry.

Just call me Curly from now on.

New Math.

But at least you answered it correctly, Calvin. Dilly! Dilly!

Miss Wormwood learned long ago to never ask Calvin to show his work.

Maybe if you didn’t spend all day daydreaming about towing planets…

Calvin is doomed to work menial jobs.

Calvin, you’re in deep doodoo!

Groan…

ANOTHER, trip to the Principal’s Office for Calvin—wouldn’t surprise me if there is a chair just outside of the door that has Calvin’s name on it ! ! !

Another day of "day dreaming’ in school!!!!

Calvin Math is out of this world!

Calvin has either the most gifted imagination ever for a six-year old…or he needs some meds.

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Ah yes, Calvin is following the time honored tradition of never putting off until tomorrow, what you can put of until the day after tomorrow.

Time flies when you’re having fun.

Well, his version of addition has some nice properties. It is commutative and associative, for example.

I spent a lot of my grade school time exploring distant planets as well. Still do, in fact.

His logic does make sense.

Time or not, you wouldn’t get any of the others right either

To be clear, both would be destroyed, if they hit hard enough to destroy either, and millions of years later we would have a new planet coalesce from the remains. But, you could, potentially, drag them together slow enough that they would just join and eventually gravity would tug them into a new sphere in the upcoming millions of years.

Calvin didn’t planet.

Wait until Calvin finds out about gravitation n’all and the answer is actually, like, 9.435

He thought it was a division problem, long division.

Maybe if Planet 5 crumbled into eleven chunks, Calvin could’ve gotten somewhere…

I remembered this arc going more than three days. Though as I look back over it, there’s really not enough to stretch it out any longer, is there?

Glad that didn’t happen to the earth. There’d be no life nowhere

Calvin will never get out of elementary school.

Somehow my theory that math should be taught to develop basic problem solving skills is both proved and disproved, as only Calvin can do.

maybe he should have used his imagination and counted out six planets then five more. after that would have been more fun crashing them altogether!

8^)

Calvin, you should have noticed the particulates: Planet 5 broke into 5 pieces, add Planet 6, and then you have 11 new planets. I love new math!

One would think that Calvin would have an IEP by now…

I wonder if that’s what happened to Ceti Alpha VI?

No worries Calvin, at the gas station of the future the cashiers work on computerized registers that do the math for you!

These days he’d be on ADHD meds.

But you didn’t show your work.

Why does he think that saturn is bigger than jupiter

When one of my children was about 7 years old his school called in a neurological phsychiatrist to explain some of his behaviors. The doctor’s first comments were that he was extremely bright (knew that already, gets it from his mom) and that he was likely to end up as the next Albert Einstien or Genghis the Khan. The doctor seemed a bit non-plussed when my instinctive reation was “and?” All turned out well, a great relationship with the doctor and the son a very successful applied scientist.

If 6 smashed into 5, breaking it into N pieces, the answer would be: 6 + 5 = 6 + 5/N + 5/N + 5/N … The answer would still be 11.

ADHD

These days Calvin could become an ‘influencer’ and make all kinds of money.

I hear some alarms and bells goin’ off.