"How many ski resorts are in the state of Colorado?" Maddy asks.
The six of us lean over the small whiteboards and scribble our guesses. My wife see her mother's guess and laughs. "Mom, really? That's your guess?" She laughs again and her mom tries to snatch her board back to revise it, but I slap my hand over it and won't let her change. We all sit on the edge of our seat, waiting to reveal her guess so we can all laugh even more.
Have you ever played Wits and Wagers? In the game, players write down guess for questions (like above) and then bet on the answer they think is the closest without going over. There are protocols for assigning odds, and you can even bet on "all answers are too high." This earns 6-to-1 odds. Other questions have been how many lakes are in Minnesota, what's the farthest (in feet) a human can spit a cherry pit, and how many pairs of shoes does the average American woman own?
Here are some teacher related questions I'd like to add to the game:
Do you have questions you would add?
Oh, and by the way, the answer we all mocked my mother-in-law for? She ended up being the closest because the rest of us guessed too high.
The six of us lean over the small whiteboards and scribble our guesses. My wife see her mother's guess and laughs. "Mom, really? That's your guess?" She laughs again and her mom tries to snatch her board back to revise it, but I slap my hand over it and won't let her change. We all sit on the edge of our seat, waiting to reveal her guess so we can all laugh even more.
Have you ever played Wits and Wagers? In the game, players write down guess for questions (like above) and then bet on the answer they think is the closest without going over. There are protocols for assigning odds, and you can even bet on "all answers are too high." This earns 6-to-1 odds. Other questions have been how many lakes are in Minnesota, what's the farthest (in feet) a human can spit a cherry pit, and how many pairs of shoes does the average American woman own?
Here are some teacher related questions I'd like to add to the game:
- How many decisions does the average teacher make in a school day?
- In minutes, how long does the average student spend using the bathroom pass in a school year?
- How many late assignments are turned in during the week after midterm grades are posted?
- How many parent-teacher conferences does a teacher conduct in a 30-year career?
- How many pages does an English teacher read in a semester?
- How many times do teachers refresh the weather report during snow day season? Students?
Do you have questions you would add?
Oh, and by the way, the answer we all mocked my mother-in-law for? She ended up being the closest because the rest of us guessed too high.