Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 15, 2014

Hobbes should be an engineer.

Hobbes is going to fail Calvin. I can see it now. Lol

That’s why no one should compare humans to animals. Haha

That’s about how I thought my teacher was teaching! Clear as mud…! ;)

Looks like Hobbes took up the Common Core Curriculum.

Slide-rulers…still? Really? Awww, we know you are just pulling our legs, no?! Really?! ;)

I don’t know much German…maybe ten words! Anyway, Ich is “I”, and nein is “no”, yes, no, huh? (I think I am having a brain meltdown tonight!)… ;)

Google is your friend:http://translate.google.com/?hl=en

You forgot the 1/3 after 418,579,217 :) :)

Oh come on Hobbes! Use the KISS principle. You’re trying to help the kid, remember?

This is a job for Tracer Bullet.

Aw… what a nice SQUARE it is. ;)

Look on ebayhttp://www.ebay.co.uk

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Hobbes is an expert on the Pythagorean Theorem of Addition.In the past, he found subtraction to be a bit more challenging:Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (March 24, 1986)Click here: Peanuts (October 5, 1965)

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing………

What? Asking a question counts as begging? (Wow, the internet makes being rude a virtue)

Not any more. They don’t add. I still have a few around the house. Couldn’t find a museum to take them.

How like a guy to measure 2 inches and call it 9.

Math by committee.

I’m in Statistics, Master’s level. Looks pretty close Hobbes!

So far I haven’t seen the correct answer. 6 + 3 = A Baseball Team!

Looks like the Common Core method of solving math problems.

@Caldonia: While Google is a great tool, I agree that it shouldn’t always take the place of human interaction. The key word in your posting is “friend.” Electronics can never take the place of true friendship. And sometimes it can isolate us and take up our time, preventing us from spending time in person with friends. A person who tries too hard to be totally self-sufficient may someday discover that they are also very lonely.

So that’s where they got the idea for Common Core!

Slide rules don’t add? That’s what an abacus is for. I’ve got one of those and it’s a nice knick-knack, but I can’t figure out how it’s supposed to work.

So it was Hobbes that designed Common Core math!

I wonder if our poster-in-German meant to say “Ich denke, die Antwort ist NEUN.”

Perhaps you can buy a slide rule app for your smart phone.

Looks like my grandson’s common core problems. and suspiciously like the new math they tried to teach us when I was a kid, didn’t work.

Common Core math

After reading all the comments, many of which are hilarious, nobody came up with the correct answer 9. I’m feeling a bit snickery this am.

I have a slide rule and know how to use it. Although I rarely have a use for it these days, it sits on my home office desk in a felt lined wooden case with a small brass catch on the lid..Although not identical, it is similar to the one below:.Occasionally, when I have a visitor in my office, the question will arise as to what is in the long wooden box. It has been the beginning of some interesting dialogue…

Since nobody’s posted it yet…

Yeah, I’m sure you can buy slide rules on eBay.

Bestimmit nicht neun. “Nein” ist aber ihn ganz egal.

And here’s the birth of common Core. Barrack Obama never mentioned he loved Calvin & Hobbs.

@nosirromNot in the American League.

And some of us use Matlab with surface plots and simulation scripts.

I still have my father’s sliderule.

Maths. Booooooo!By the way, The answer is 9, Calvin.xxx

Hobbes’ method of analysis sounds so much like something Calvin would say that it almost makes me question my otherwise firmly-held belief that Hobbes is real. But I guess Hobbes can play a joke like this on Calvin now and then.

@paullp: Hobbes is real, but he has an imaginary friend named Calvin. That’s why it becomes confusing sometimes.

Early on in the strip, Hobbes added 7 and 3 and came up with 73. Not a bad approximation. Within 2 orders of magnitude.

Answer: 63

Interestingly, the sum is a square number, but that’s not how it works.

As a teacher, I have to say that Hobbes’ explanation is a fairly accurate depiction of the methods in Common Core Math.

I wonder how he doesn’t even get held back.

Just like Common Core New Math!

Slide rule? Abacus? How about fingers?

Although it will take both C & H to get to 9. They are ’toons,

@Hobbes, I’m not quite convinced of the validity of your theory, although I guess you would know if anyone would . . .

Calvin and his pet tiger Hobbes are working on Calvin’s math homework. Hobbes thinks he has all the answers, but Calvin decides to give Uncle Max a call just to make sure.

Personally, all I know about math is that 2 + 2 = 22.

So Hobbes is the one who started the Common Core Math…

Oh! … zi get it: nein / nine ah…

The thing is, Hobbes is doing it exactly how it’s taught today (and probably how it was taught in the 90s). Thanks Common Corpse.

Now that’s a square i’d like to see!

STOP

9

by Hobbes’s logic, the answer is the square root of 45