Miss Joes teaches mathematics at a school. In one of her classes, the boys and girls are about eight years old, and they are not very good at arithmetic, Miss Jones always tries to make the work interesting and amusing as well as useful.

One day she gave them a question: 'If you go to the market to buy vegetables,' she said, and a carrot and a half cost twelve pence, how much will you have to pay for a dozen carrots?

The pupils began to write in their exercise-books, and for a long time nobody spoke. Then one boy put his hand up and said, "Could you repeat the question, please, Miss?"

The teacher began, 'If a carrot and a half but the boy interrupted her

"Oh, a carrot and a half he said. All this time I've been trying to work it out in cabbages, Miss."

A   Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)? Write Tor F in the boxes.

1. Miss Jones helps her pupils to enjoy their work
2. One day she asked them to buy her some carrots in the market
3. The pupils worked very fast.
4. One boy thought he had not heard Miss Jones s question correctly.
5. He thought she had said cabbages instead of carrots
6. The reason why he had not been able to get the answer was that he had been trying to work it out in 'cabbages

B    Answer these questions.

1. What question did Miss Jones ask her pupils one day?
2. What did the pupils do?
3. What happened after a long time?
4. What did the boy ask?
5. What did Miss Jones answer?
6. What did the boy do?
7. And what did he say?
8. What difference would it make if one worked the sum out in cabbages instead of carrots?

C   Do this puzzle.

Across:

1. Miss Joes is a teacher of…….

7. Absolutely certain.

8. The pupil with the lowest marks is...... of the class.

9. Made it possible for.

10. Most children like these. 

11. The children in Miss Jones's class were not clever…... to answer her questions quickly.

12. Deserving the most blame

14. Does that boy write with his left hand? "No, he is …….

Down:

1. Learning thoroughly

2. Miss Jones does not believe in...children with punishment if they do not lean.

3. Very good.

4. Trying not to have to do (something)

5. The boy who had asked the question ………. Miss Jones before she had finished her answer

6. Felt pity for someone's troubles

13. Street. (short)