About a month ago, I jokingly asked my students a multiplication problem from the movie version of Matilda. 13 x 379 = 4927
Today, I threw it out again, and one of my students remembered the answer.
“The things we buy and buy and buy are like a thick coat of Vaseline smeared on glass,” she wrote. “We can see some shapes out there, light and dark, but in our constant craving for what we may still want, we miss life’s details.”
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