7 down...77 to go...

Today marks the end of the Spring Quarter 2010 at VC...and the 7th quarter I have taught at the school. Should I stay through retirement age, that means I only have 77 quarters left until I hang up the whiteboard markers and erasers and head into my twilight years.

Wow...that's kind of depressing. 77 more quarters teaching fractions!

I was talking with Kari Sunday (she who believes fractions are "holy torture") and some interesting stats came up while I was trying to describe how big my lot is...since I seem to spend a lot of time mowing the grass. It really just SEEMS I spend a lot of time mowing the grass; I have an electric mower, featuring a battery that doesn't always let me finish the yard in one mowing:

-- My lot is 70 feet by 130 feet. That's 9100 square feet.
-- An acre is defined as any region with a perimeter of 43, 560 square feet.
-- 9100 square feet is 20.6% of an acre, or just a little larger than 1/5. The actual
FRACTION is 103/500 of an acre.
-- An acre is 40% of a hectare. So by that measure, my lot is a little more than 8% of a
hectare.

Now aren't you glad you read the blog today?? Have a good one!