Why can my child skip his/her 20 minutes of reading tonight?
(This response was found on www.mother.com/~callaway/tarika/20minutes.html) Let’s figure it out mathematically! Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week; Student B reads only 4 minutes a night or not at all! Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week. Student A reads 20 minutes x 5 times a week = 100 minutes a week. Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes a week. Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 each month. Student A reads 400 minutes a month. Student B reads 80 minutes a month. Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months. Student A reads 3600 minutes in a school year. Student B reads 720 minutes in a school year. Student A practices reading the equivalent of 10 whole school days a year. Student B gets the equivalent of only 2 school days of reading practice. By the end of 6th grade if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits, Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole days, while student B will have read the equivalen
