Fractionopoly

[Hondahugger]

So my wonderful 11 year old son comes home from school on Monday with a project. Problem is, I don't see my kids on Mondays because they go with their dad for the night. So Tuesday night, after I got home from work, cooked dinner, cleaned up and did 3 loads of laundry, he comes to me around 8 - 8:30ish and says, "Oh yeah Mommy, I have a project and it's due on Friday". GREAT!!!!

So now it's too late to do anything on Tuesday night, Wednesday nights are useless because the boys have their Youth Group so the project had to be done last night.

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So when I finally crawled into bed last night at about 2 a.m., pleased with my, I mean his completed project, I thought "hmmmmm, not bad for last minute!" I better, eh hem, I mean HE better get an A!!!!!

Anyone else have last minute project success stories? Or ideas for the future??????

[Rider]

That's pretty fucking cool. :dthumb:

[Ninjakel]

Holy shit. Can you be my new mommy????


I hate math

[azoomm]

Holy shit. Can you be my new mommy????


I hate math

No kidding... me next!!!

I'm shocked that my daughters are great at math, I loathe it.

[Trip]

That's awesome for a quick project. All my projects were very quick ones before college, then for some reason I became a planner. You can see my recent project (not for school) in the flickr photos on the front page that I been planning since last christmas. It's computer controlled christmas lights to music, custom built by me.

[dReWpY]

i want to be apart of this chaos .... damnit

[shmike]

How are they going to learn if you keep doing their homework for them? :?:

[Hondahugger]

I think I completely fried every braincell I have left!

Instead of Chance and Community Chest, we made Solve and Make. For Solve, when you flipped the card over, it was a Fraction Problem that the player had to solve. When you flipped the Make card over, it was something like "Make the player to the right of you solve a Fraction Problem. If they get it wrong, they owe you $200.00 but if they get it right, you owe them $300.00".

The RailRoads are North, East, South & West Playground. Free Parking was a Homework Pass and Jail is Detention. The Utilities were Book Fair, Field Trip and Class Pictures.

I hand wrote out Property Cards but only put the name of the property, (ie Minus Manor), the Martgage Value and Rent Amount. As for the Money, yeah, he took the Monopoly money, there just wasn't enough time (or coffee) to do that!

[Hondahugger]

How are they going to learn if you keep doing their homework for them? :?:
You'll understand when you have kids!

Besides, I didn't do it ALL for him, just the Layout, and the Writing, and the Property Cards. He did everything else. He came up with the property names, Drew the different playground items, colored in all the blocks, Wrote out the Solve & Make cards, wrote out the Fractionopoly and hand wrote the Instruction Pamphlet.

I, I mean, HE better get an A!

[JARVIS518]

seans prego?

[shmike]

I hand wrote out Property Cards but only put the name of the property, (ie Minus Manor), the Martgage Value and Rent Amount. As for the Money, yeah, he took the Monopoly money, there just wasn't enough time (or coffee) to do that!

Good thing it wasn't Spellingopoly.

You'll understand when you have kids!

Besides, I didn't do it ALL for him, just the Layout, and the Writing, and the Property Cards. He did everything else. He came up with the property names, Drew the different playground items, colored in all the blocks, Wrote out the Solve & Make cards, wrote out the Fractionopoly and hand wrote the Instruction Pamphlet.

I, I mean, HE better get an A!

The property names were very creative. Kudos to him.

seans prego?

Can't be, I :diitb:

[speedylocksmith]

Can't be, I :diitb:I tried that to but since I'm so big, it poked through to the other canal :lmao:

[shmike]

I tried that to but since I'm so big, it poked through to the other canal :lmao:

So that's why Kyle is such a shithead?

[speedylocksmith]

So that's why Kyle is such a shithead?no, that's why Amber was so full of shit :lol:

[VFR Rider]

So when I finally crawled into bed last night at about 2 a.m., pleased with my, I mean his completed project, I thought "hmmmmm, not bad for last minute!" I better, eh hem, I mean HE better get an A!!!!!

Anyone else have last minute project success stories? Or ideas for the future??????

Yeah make your kid do their homework. While the game is gorgeous and deserves and "A" it also deserves and "F" because it was done by you and not your kid.

My son is famous for "last minute" project surprises. There was the essay on Lincoln, where he go so worked up crying that this was just too hard to do, that I made him go to bed and go to school without it.

There was the essay and poster board timeline on Galileo's life where I had to take him from his mom's during the week because he wasn't doing the work and we still ended up staying up until 3am the night before it was due so he could finish typing.

The only good news is that the last couple of projects he finally seems to be figuring out that it is easier to do it in pieces.

[OneSickPsycho]

Yeah make your kid do their homework. While the game is gorgeous and deserves and "A" it also deserves and "F" because it was done by you and not your kid.

My son is famous for "last minute" project surprises. There was the essay on Lincoln, where he go so worked up crying that this was just too hard to do, that I made him go to bed and go to school without it.

There was the essay and poster board timeline on Galileo's life where I had to take him from his mom's during the week because he wasn't doing the work and we still ended up staying up until 3am the night before it was due so he could finish typing.

The only good news is that the last couple of projects he finally seems to be figuring out that it is easier to do it in pieces.

Unfortunately, I never really learned that lesson completely... My parents wouldn't really help me with my stuff... other than proof-reading and yelling at me for waiting until the last minute... I never went to school without a project completed, but I damn sure went to school a number of times with zero sleep and a project that wasn't fully up to my potential... always scored well though...

There were a few good ones along the way... I did a report on the human brain my sophomore year in HS... I spent weeks with my mom's medical books, random periodicals, and other reference material... Fuckin' rocked that report... 100% baby! That was the highlight of being grounded for 6 months after being arrested...

All college works, besides a few extensive projects, were half-assed and last minute... never brought in anything less than a solid B. I guess that's probably why I never learned my lesson. :D

[Sixxxxer]

I got some Depth Drive For Ya ;)

That is honestly Kickass...And I think its ok to help your Kids out...Letting them go witthout it completly and failing...I guess thats just not my style.