The New Year (Math) Resolutions
Do You Solve it in the New Year?
When the end of each year approaches, teachers often make this joke at schools. They told the students that they would collect the assignment back next year. Since these are the last days of the year, the students have just two or three weeks to do their tasks. It is the holiday season, and even you could not count it as spare time. Everyone says that 2020 is the worst year ever; I will not argue that everyone is locked down in their homes because of the pandemic. So, you might have more time in this holiday season, any way you do not have one year. If you are a somewhat selfish (!) math teacher like me, you can assign homework a month before, especially in project assignments, make this joke, and get the first teacher’s title making this joke in the school.
While approaching the new year, some questions might ask only by math teachers. These kinds of problems seem fun, but they challenge the problem-solving ability of students. One of them is here:
How can someone born in 2021 be older than someone born in 2020?
An answer could be 2021 before Christ (2021 BC) and 2020 after Christ (2020 AC)…
