So then this is definitely an assignment set for her in maths class? I'd ask for my money back, mate. This is worse than teaching creationism.

I admit I have little natural feeling for those who talk about ways in which maths can be made fun, or taught in a 'relevant' way. But that's simply because I always enjoyed it and needed no additional motivation than the existence of a problem to have a go at it. Only painful experience attempting to tutor my sister showed me that not everybody sees it as fun, or even 'sees' numbers the way I did. Even so, this assignment smacks not jsut of the bizarre, but the truly perverse.

Go get 'em.

cheer

the sunshine warrior