The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

Author: Noble

Publisher/Date: Scholastic Inc; 1980

ISBN: 0-590-33672-X

Grade Levels Recommended for Use: 6-8

Brief Summary: A student relates the bizarre incidents of the class trip to the farm to her disbelieving mom. The story starts at the end and ends at the beginning.

Topics: number sense; sequences, combinations, operations

Suggested Activities

Have the class experiment with number sequencing. Give students a number and asking them to find all the different combinations which equal the number through various operations.

Take the year (for example, 2006) and have students find a way to equal 2006 using only ones, only twos, only threes, etc and combinations of operations.