Inaugural Extra Credit
THE CORRRECT ANSWER: June 23rd, 1981.
Can you figure out Mr. Welch's birthday based on the clues below?
- I was born in the month named after the Roman goddess of marrriage. She is the wife of Jupiter and mother of Mars.
- I was born on a day that is a prime number. It is the penultimate (second-to-last) prime number of the month.
- I was born in the 20th century.
- If you add the last two digits of my year of birth you get the second digit of my year of birth.
- I was born after the relase of Jaws, but before the release of Ghostbusters.
To get extra credit, you need to show your work - how did you figure it out?
posted by Peter Welch at Friday, September 08, 2006
20 Comments:
I liked this challenge, it was an interesting start to 6th grade-Daniel Krane
2:35 PM
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
And thanks for not posting the answer!
- Mr. Welch
3:32 PM
This was a good challenge, some of the things I had to find on the internet. You have a cool website. Nathaniel
3:49 PM
Yo, Mr. Welch I like this challenge but I have a feeling that Xtra credits aren't gonna be this easy throughout the year. I was wondering if I was allowed to use any resource to figure this out. Mr. Welch< can you please right back??? Oh yeah the answer to the riddle is_______________???/
5:01 PM
Sorry i forgot to post my name on the thingy. The name is Kevin. Kevin
5:03 PM
Mr. Welch, I was wondering how you came up with this idea and how you got info to put on the riddle. I enjoyed this challenge a lot and I have a question. Is the Xtra credit always going to be on the website or will you hand out sheets of papers in class?? I know some one who has the same birthday as you. If I got the problem right then I'm sure I know a special someone that shares your birthday C ya. KEVIN
5:08 PM
whats Jaws and Ghosbusters?
5:16 PM
Jaws and ghoust busters are something that can be released and are titles of something. Dont forget to post your name> KEVIN
5:22 PM
Jaws and Ghostbosters are movies - Ghostbusters is an all-time great.
You can use any resources you want (other than your fellow students) to help you solve the riddle...
I will definitely hand-out the extra-credit in class as well, but I couldn't do that this time because I hadn't created the question until today.
I'm glad people are enjoying the challenge!
-Mr. Welch
5:47 PM
I had alot of fun trying to figure the puzzle out. I really like to do puzzles like this.Im going to be doing this alot in the future, but i got stuck on the year you were born. i found it out. it took me a few minutes.
David
7:47 PM
thats a really cool puzzle. I hope you post more puzzles like that.
Amalia
6:59 AM
Did we have to write down what we did in order to get Xtra credit??? I wrote a Paragragh on how I figured it out. KEVIN
11:30 AM
Someone put the answer up. Mr. Welch , do something about it
1:45 PM
Someone put the answer up Mr. Welch . Erase it. KEVIN
1:45 PM
kevin, why do u use so many question marks? julian
9:53 PM
BECAUSE!!!!! GOSH!!!!!!!!!
4:20 PM
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11:49 AM
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