{"id":1851,"date":"2014-05-06T20:55:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T20:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2014-05-06T20:55:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T20:55:18","slug":"the-magic-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/05\/the-magic-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my students walked into a physics class with a very good calculator – a casio 991 es plus – and walked out with two.<\/p>\n

When he asked whose calculator he walked out with at the next lesson, noone claimed it.<\/p>\n

Must be a magic room. I told him, ‘next time, walk in with an ipad. If you walk out with two, give me one’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my students walked into a physics class with a very good calculator – a casio 991 es plus – and walked out with two. 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