Alex Reed

8th Grade Social Studies Teacher - Mason Middle School
Amateur Beanologist

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@ChapesFamily Well, I was wrong. I told my students my guess that we would get 2 beans.

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

As we move into Jelly Bean Season and all the fun we can expect from @ChapesFamily, here is a lookback at the last 11 years of jelly beans

We've had 57 snow days with 688 Jelly Beans! And don't be worried about not having a snowday yet. 82% of our snowdays happen in Jan and Feb.

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@ChapesFamily

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@ConScott06 @ChapesFamily Oh, woops. I read it as "last" time. My bad. My archives don't currently have times for jelly beans (yet). So I'm not sure. Sorry!

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@ChapesFamily No fun facts for today (yet). But we've never had a snow day on March 10th. So that's pretty neat.

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@SchafersStir @ChapesFamily Also half days for exams at the HS, right?

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@ChapesFamily We should have had your favorite student(s) asking for more jelly beans more often...

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@ChapesFamily No fun stats for today. Hopefully we get some more beans because everytime we've had only 1 jellybean after March 1st, we do not have a snowday. The storm is at an odd time, for sure.

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@almemoore @ChapesFamily Only 2 early releases on the record, unfortunately.

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@ChapesFamily

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

For those who like to have hope, there have been 3 times we've had a "surprise" snow day where @ChapesFamily did not give any Jelly Beans.

3 snow days... out of 55 snow days on the Jelly Bean Record.

[Andrew Chapin @ChapesFamily]

10 jellybeans for tomorrow!!!

You get jellybeans! You get jellybeans! Everyone gets jellybeans!

#SeeYouFriday
#Beanboozled
#WeLoveJellybeans
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[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

I did some digging at how accurate @ChapesFamily is and when he gives 8 jelly beans, we have an 83% chance at a snow day.

Trust in the Jelly Beans.

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@TonyaMetzger @ChapesFamily Now, this does include days that we've gone higher than 5 jelly beans.

If we end at 5 jelly beans (meaning, no more beans) the numbers are accurate. 50% of the time we have snow days, 50% we don't. @ChapesFamily is very, very accurate.

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@TonyaMetzger @ChapesFamily Now, I was hoping this question wouldn't come up. I didn't want to jinx it. While I don't have bean stats on timing (yet), I do have this for you:

5 beans is the most interesting number of beans. Of the 17 times we've seen "5 Jelly Beans," we've had a snowday 14 times.

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@ChapesFamily Streaks are meant to be broken!

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@ChapesFamily I have some bad news: every time you've started a jelly bean count with "3" and did not add any more, we have gone to school the next day. No snow day.

Now, I'm not saying giving us more jelly beans it will help our chance, but...

[Alex Reed @TheBeanologist]

@ChapesFamily Jelly beans this early?! I don't have data about jelly beans being posted in advance! Very exciting news!

[Andrew Chapin @ChapesFamily]

MPS: 10 jellybeans for tomorrow!!! In fact, it’s so icy it might be a four day long snow day! 😉

But in all seriousness, be careful out there! If we actually had school tomorrow, we’d probably have 5 jellybeans right now.

#DriveSafely
#Beans4Days
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