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Are the Fair Lands Blocks Just for Children?

Years ago, about the time of , the author of this booklet, Paul Shoecraft, taught a night class at Arizona State Prison, a federal penitentiary in Florence. The class covered arithmetic and elementary algebra and met once a week for about 2 hours for 14 weeks. About 20 men took the class, ranging in age from 20-50 and in incarceration time from 1-20 years. Instruction was individualized in a continual progress format.

While subtracting mixed numbers, Paul noticed some of the men just sprinkling 1s about when they had to “borrow.

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One Super Cube, one Flat, and two Unit Cubes are left in Fair Lands.

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Must put the Super Cube on the truck. One Flat and two Unit Cubes are left in Fair Lands.

Order filled. Stage 1 Recording and Stage 2 recording for the event are shown below. Mouse over the notebooks to enlarge them.

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Ans. Only

Ans. and Work

Three Land Exporting Practice

1. 12013 – 2123 (ans. 2123)

2. 20123 – 1223 (ans. 1,1203)

3. 211103 – 120013 (ans. 2,1023)

4. 2001003 – 1221223 (ans. 2013)

5. 1020113 – 221023 (ans. 2,2023)

6. 20000123 – 12222203 (ans. 223)

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