Monday's ^gentle^ brain teaser, it will leave you ^square eyed^. ??????

Eh, eh, eh, no talking in class or you will all be cleaning the toilets! (Very sad teacher face).?????

I will be back in a wee while with the answers.
Millionth in the queue on a customer service phone line, so don't hold your breath! ?

But Miss Doodle doesnt mind going in the boys toilets, shes always hanging around there.

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hazbeen you snitch. ?

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? I’ve gone off boys Miss. I’ll be good, just don’t make me clean the boys toilets again. I’ve left hazbeen in the corridor. I think she’s fainted from the fumes. ?

Oh Doodle fancy leaving me lying there with my knickers on show. You wait I'll get you back! Please dont believe her Miss Doll I saw her kissing that boy from Australia.

Lovely posters, thank you for being such good sports.
wila, good to see you up and about in time for school.
Hazbeen, stop being a notice box!

Doodle, I will speak to you later!

? For you all!
Miss Doll ?

40 squares

888 +88 +8 +8 +8

Not fair! Only just came back to this thread (been busy!), so the 'wee teaser' and got the answer immediately, only to find it's already been revealed. Now I've got the hump and I'm going off to have a sulk. Don't anybody try talking to me

so saw

They’re rectangles not squares or am I nitpicking
yes, they keep changing from squares to rectangles!
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Now to look at the answer.

Oh, underthinking today!!

that will annoy me now until I find the missing 5!!

It has to be an even number

I'm going to lie in a darkened room.?
Virtual classroom is more stressful than the real thing. ?

My eyes are going skew wiff

Callistemon I found it easier to make a note of the squares as I found them, as follows:

16 x single box squares
8 x single box tiny squares
9 x 4 box squares
4 x 9 box squares
1 x 16 box square
2 x 4 tiny box squares

Does that make sense?

Thanks for that Bathsheba.
That would how I would have taught it in real life.
Too much like hard work here. ?

Problem solving strategy:
Make an organised list or table.

Top of the class. ??

Bathsheba thank you
I think my mind was boggled trying to get a grocery slot - again. Trying to make an organised list of what we need then failing to get a slot!

Just got back and noticed there was another teaser (the one with the eights!)

Just in case I brought a note:.....
^Dear Miss
Kindly excuse Willa's missed assignment. She badly needs new eyeglasses but she procrastinated. Now, her appointment's been cancelled due to that pesky Corona virus! In the meantime, she's still wearing her old ones which are better than nothing because they still look good, even though she can't see as well as she used to^.
^Sincerely,
Willa's alter ego^

Note was supposed to be in italics (carat doesn't work?)

Miss would I cause you any trouble? Honestly, that hazbeen ?.

Miss can we do painting tomorrow instead of sums? ?

My excuse also willa
I should not have procrastinate, but I really dislike going for an eye test.

Miss, the dog ate my homework as well!

callistemon my dog did not eat your homework too. Really ?. I’d let you copy mine but with my track record so far all the sums would be wrong.?