Here at Bedtime Math we’re loving this poem about macaroni and cheese, shared by our fan William O.:
Lace up: If you take All the macaroni and cheese I eat Place it noodle to noodle With all that cheesy goo It would stretch from here To Aunt Bea’s house. – Tom Robert ShieldsThere’s a lot of math in there. How many mac ‘n cheese noodles do you think you’ve ever eaten? Whose house would you want to reach with them, and how far would it be? If you lay down the first 10 noodles of your mac ‘n cheese trail, and you eat the 1st, then the 2nd, then the 3rd…which noodle do you eat next?
Jog: If you eat the 1st mac ‘n cheese noodle, then the 3rd, then the 5th, now which noodle do you eat next?
Sprint: If out of 20 noodles on the ground you wisely eat just 1, how many are left on the ground?
Hurdle: If you’ve eaten 12 bowls of mac ‘n cheese in your life, and each had 100 noodles, how many noodles long would a 12-bowl trail have?
High Jump: If each noodle is 1 inch, how many feet long would a line of 600 noodles be? (Reminder if needed: A foot has 12 inches.)
Answers:
Lace up: The 4th.
Jog: The 7th.
Sprint: 19 noodles.
Hurdle: 1,200 noodles.
High Jump: 50 feet, because you’re dividing 600 by 12.And thank you to poet Tom Robert Shields in the book Yummy!: Eating through a Day for this great poem!
