Monday's ^gentle^ brain teaser, it will leave you ^square eyed^. ??????

Oh Miss you are a spoil sport. ?

I'm asking for a transfer to another school, you ggggirrrrrrllllllssss will be the death of me! ??

For all those who need new specs, my DIL, an optician will come in and deal with you all. NO-one and I mean No-one is getting out of MY maths class! ?.

No Wila, you are not having designer glasses!
No Doodle, you can't have Elton John glasses!
As for you Callistemon, you won't notice the difference anyway, so a pair of 1960s NHS for will do for you.

I never think I say clearer, better or worse at the right time, consequently my specs are rarely satisfactory!

'Is that better with the lens
Or without the lens'?

'I dunno really, could be either'

Callistemon,
Such a drain!.....Don't know how bad it is in UK, but around here you either lose a morning or an entire afternoon......at least three hours in a waiting room full of people either waiting to go in or waiting for those annoying eye drops to take hold. When they called to cancel my (Mar. 17) appointment, I was so happy!

callistemon my dog did not eat your homework too. Really ?. I’d let you copy mine but with my track record so far all the sums would be wrong.?

My excuse also willa
I should not have procrastinate, but I really dislike going for an eye test.

Miss, the dog ate my homework as well!

Miss can we do painting tomorrow instead of sums? ?

Miss would I cause you any trouble? Honestly, that hazbeen ?.

Note was supposed to be in italics (carat doesn't work?)

Just got back and noticed there was another teaser (the one with the eights!)

Just in case I brought a note:.....
^Dear Miss
Kindly excuse Willa's missed assignment. She badly needs new eyeglasses but she procrastinated. Now, her appointment's been cancelled due to that pesky Corona virus! In the meantime, she's still wearing her old ones which are better than nothing because they still look good, even though she can't see as well as she used to^.
^Sincerely,
Willa's alter ego^

Bathsheba thank you
I think my mind was boggled trying to get a grocery slot - again. Trying to make an organised list of what we need then failing to get a slot!

Thanks for that Bathsheba.
That would how I would have taught it in real life.
Too much like hard work here. ?

Problem solving strategy:
Make an organised list or table.

Top of the class. ??

Callistemon I found it easier to make a note of the squares as I found them, as follows:

16 x single box squares
8 x single box tiny squares
9 x 4 box squares
4 x 9 box squares
1 x 16 box square
2 x 4 tiny box squares

Does that make sense?

My eyes are going skew wiff

I'm going to lie in a darkened room.?
Virtual classroom is more stressful than the real thing. ?

It has to be an even number

that will annoy me now until I find the missing 5!!

They’re rectangles not squares or am I nitpicking
yes, they keep changing from squares to rectangles!
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Now to look at the answer.

Oh, underthinking today!!

so saw

Not fair! Only just came back to this thread (been busy!), so the 'wee teaser' and got the answer immediately, only to find it's already been revealed. Now I've got the hump and I'm going off to have a sulk. Don't anybody try talking to me

40 squares

888 +88 +8 +8 +8

Lovely posters, thank you for being such good sports.
wila, good to see you up and about in time for school.
Hazbeen, stop being a notice box!

Doodle, I will speak to you later!

? For you all!
Miss Doll ?

Oh Doodle fancy leaving me lying there with my knickers on show. You wait I'll get you back! Please dont believe her Miss Doll I saw her kissing that boy from Australia.

? I’ve gone off boys Miss. I’ll be good, just don’t make me clean the boys toilets again. I’ve left hazbeen in the corridor. I think she’s fainted from the fumes. ?

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