Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 26, 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawa_Inc.

Caufield…you spend half of your time harassing your teachers…..Dude, your busted…

BTW, Jeff, isn’t it time for a new teacher or two? Come on man….

fractions are useful when sharing a pizza, or mileage, time, speed equations during driving.

If two apples cost $1, how much will 3 apples cost? That’s algebra. And fractions. Both are useful in real life.

I taught Introductory Statistics for a few years and I always began the course telling the students: “You’re now going to learn the most useful mathematics you’ve had since you took arithmetic”.

Didn’t Jack Benny once do a joke about having beri beri in Walla Walla?

Japanese has a plethora of descriptive double words like this. Bara bara is rattle; pata pata is flapping; hiso hiso is whispering; buchi buchi is ripping, and the list goes on. Note: these repeating words are not only for sounds, but for other types of adjectives as well.

I think today’s strip is just so so.

Oh, you’ll use them at least 1/10 of the time, don’t you think?

He’ll get real interested in fractions as soon as he realizes that the fraction of your nominal salary that you actually take home is a major factor in your well-being.

My 3 year old knows fractions! “I want TWO quarters of apple!”

If Chi Chi Rodriguez and Zsa Zsa Gabor had had a child, would she have been Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney?