What’s a Cube?
Published Jan 01, 1900
A kindergarten teacher was giving a lesson on the shapes of things. She asked for examples of cubes. Each child in turn named something shaped like a cube - a box, a block, an ice cube, and so on. Eventually the class ran out of ideas, the last one mentioned being a half pound of butter.
"That's fine," said the teacher, "now let's have one more." The class was silent, apparently having exhausted its originality, until finally one little boy, who hadn't thought of anything up to then, raised his hand. "The other half of that pound of butter," he offered.
Originally published November 14, 2002.
