It is both the title of one of the Childcraft books we scored this weekend AND what I am about to open up a can of. The book is terrific, if you have little kids around (or even if you don't); it's full of fun mathy games and 1970s-style illustrations, and come on, who doesn't love a nerdy little shit who goes around taunting adults about their inability to distinguish avoirdupois from Troy? Also it was my first introduction to The Phantom Tollboth, which Sophia and Sean have now read in entirety and which has left me, 28 years after encountering the phrase, whispering "I'm the Dodecahedron! Who are you?" whenever I think about math. Or tollbooths. Or nothing at all.
Creepy-ass Dodecahedron with your scary sad clown face. I hate you, Dodecahedron.
Anyway I have to go math it up now, since my science homework is done and Sean is hogging the TV and watching Seven Samurai. To be fair he's been watching it for about three days since I keep barging in and insisting we put it on something mutually agreeable * so I think I'll let him have his thing while I make Rate Pies instead of real pies.**
Oh and speaking of Rate Pies: d=rt. Now I'm gonna sing the Perry Mason theme.
*KIDDING. God.
**I am eating the potty-training peanut M&Ms and awaiting the delivery of the Thin Mints I ordered and did not mention to anyone else in the house.
Thin mints arrive via me to East Nashville tomorrow! Are you free in the afternoon?
Posted by: Robin | February 13, 2011 at 10:43 PM
Now I don't feel so bad about not mentioning the presence of Mallow-Oats in the house. (crinch crunch) (they were hidden in the old Cap'n Crunch box)
Posted by: Sean | February 13, 2011 at 11:03 PM
We had the ENTIRE SET of those childcraft books when I was a kid. I was thinking of them recently and asked my mom where they were and she said, "Oh, I gave them to Goodwill years ago..."
Posted by: Gina | February 14, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Even google fails at telling me what a "rate pie" is. I feel like it's some kind of math (?) mystery, and I'm not in-the-know.
As for d=rt, I always used v=d/t, but I'm physics like that.
Posted by: SarcastiCarrie | February 21, 2011 at 02:17 PM
SarcastiCarrie, it's from Cracking the GRE -- a nifty way to figure rates quickly.
Posted by: Jo | February 21, 2011 at 09:49 PM
I loved The Phantom Tollbooth. I might need that Mathemagic book...
Posted by: magpie | February 24, 2011 at 12:16 PM
We are thevsame! I am also eating the potty training peanut m&ms- but I bought the Thin Mints for my hubby. The pb oatmeal sandwiches are my fave cookie.
Posted by: Stephanie | March 02, 2011 at 11:55 PM
We also had this entire series when I was a kid. I can not tell you how many HOURS I spent, sitting on the floor reading and re-reading and re-re-reading every book. I'd pay a lot of money to have that set again. I seriously learned SO much from them! Bravo on finding yours.
Posted by: Rebekah | April 01, 2011 at 01:06 PM