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Reading, Writing, and (Confederate) Arithmetic
Posted on April 21, 2012 by Keith Harris
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I had a little time on my hands yesterday so I wandered over to the Gettysburg Museum of History's Facebook page to have a look at a few historical artifacts.The museum has a little game where they ask followers to name whatever artifact is being displayed by "Vanessa the Intern" (this woman's name and position are always set off by quotation marks so I thought I would follow the tradition). Expired Image Removed
Yesterday I saw this image – "Vanessa the Intern" holding an 1864 math book printed in the Confederacy. There are few words to describe what is printed inside – maybe "****" or "really?" would suffice. I'll let you add your own. And, if you want to brush up on your Confederate math skills, here are a few word problems from the book to get you started
1. If one Confederate soldier can kill 90 Yankees, how many Yankees can 10 Confederate soldiers kill?
2. If one Confederate soldier can whip 7 Yankees, how many soldiers can whip 49 Yankees?
3. 7 Confederate soldiers captured 21 Yankees and divided them equally between them. How many did each one have?
There will be a test later.
Peace,
Keith
Reading, Writing, and (Confederate) Arithmetic
Posted on April 21, 2012 by Keith Harris
Expired Image RemovedGreetings Cosmic Americans!
I had a little time on my hands yesterday so I wandered over to the Gettysburg Museum of History's Facebook page to have a look at a few historical artifacts.The museum has a little game where they ask followers to name whatever artifact is being displayed by "Vanessa the Intern" (this woman's name and position are always set off by quotation marks so I thought I would follow the tradition). Expired Image Removed
Yesterday I saw this image – "Vanessa the Intern" holding an 1864 math book printed in the Confederacy. There are few words to describe what is printed inside – maybe "****" or "really?" would suffice. I'll let you add your own. And, if you want to brush up on your Confederate math skills, here are a few word problems from the book to get you started
1. If one Confederate soldier can kill 90 Yankees, how many Yankees can 10 Confederate soldiers kill?
2. If one Confederate soldier can whip 7 Yankees, how many soldiers can whip 49 Yankees?
3. 7 Confederate soldiers captured 21 Yankees and divided them equally between them. How many did each one have?
There will be a test later.
Peace,
Keith
That would account for some of the battlefield stats I have read from their reports.
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