So today we were reading an article about Italy's declining birth rate. We're popcorn reading, and when one kid gets to a paragraph about how Italy's birth rate has dropped below the 2.1 average of children per woman- several kids gasp and one boy says out loud "2.1 kids?!?! How does a woman have 2.1 kids?!" Then another boy at his table says "I guess she gave birth to a toe....I mean, it's only .1 of a child!!" Needless to say, I cracked up laughing...and once I recovered my composure, we had a nice class discussion on averages and how we come up with an average number.
Oh freshmen..... :)
