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Great song, Gary. I read somewhere that the county I live in (Nueces) is the biggest producer of cotton in the country. Maybe the world? Dunno. A nearby town's high school football team is called the Robstown Cottonpickers. But I never picked cotton....When them cotton bolls get rotten, you can't pick very much cotton, Vince!
This was a song (one of many) I used to sing as a kid unloading wagonloads of hay bales:
- GT
Really like this one!...
And I thought it would be fun to verify that there are 78 triangles here:
And I thought it would be fun to verify that there are 78 triangles here:
I'll take your words for it.
You wouldn't tell us a untruth, after all.
Really like this one!
I'll have to work on a systematic way to count triangles in the diagram. A quick (and possibly inaccurate) count had me at 61, and I hadn't even counted "upside down" triangles!
- GT
I do the same lesson in my Pre Algebra class except I use squares.
It teaches your brain how to do hard stuff.
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(Ron)!!! I'll send you a PM here shortly. 
Wow, now we're getting into some serious philosophical stuff. All I can say is, that if you combine -12000 and -12000 (-12000 plus -12000) you end up with -24000. You need to multiply the negative numbers to get positive.
Over my head. I still don't know why I had to take those algebra classes!
A fine yet modest Gent, very pleased for you.
Wow Barrett!WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
But first...
How about some more numbers?
Over a period of 21 days, we had 308 game-participating posts, which contained a total of 15,067 things, items, units of measurement, etc.
There were 43 participants in the game (including myself), 34 of whom entered for the giveaway. 15 of you earned additional entries for participating after the rule change, and 7 people were nominated for entry by another member, for a total of 56 entries in the drawing.
Here are our top 9 participants, who contributed at least 10 posts each.
- S SnailOffTheTrail : 22 posts
- @TexasTomcat:21 posts
- @JTB_5: 20 posts
- @eisman: 10 posts
(I was number 10, with 8 posts.)
This morning I wrote all 56 entries out on small pieces of dot grid paper, each of which consisted of 48 grid squares, for a total of 2,688 grid squares.
I then folded each of the 56 entries and dropped them into 1 hat. (The pattern on the band of the hat is repeated 28 times.)
I enlisted the help of my official-giveaway-drawing-assistant, Eleanor, who recently turned 4 years old.
She rustled around in the hat a few times, mixing up the entries...
...and pulled 1 winner!
Congrats
Thanks again to everyone for participating, this really was a lot of fun!
What an absolutely wonderful surprise. I looked this morning while I was logged on to see if a winner had been drawn yet. I have been the fortunate winner of several GAWs on the Porch over the years, but this one is extra special. I haven’t entered many GAWs lately, but this one just seemed too interesting to pass up. I’m glad I chose to participate because seeing that special young lady holding Half/Stop in her hands is priceless. Please give her a big hug and tell her thank you for me Barrett. I responded to your PM with the requested info. It was a fun and very successful GAW. There was probably more participation than we’ve had in along time. I’ll show the beaver here when I get it. Thanks again Barrett.
