Today's class was a very humbling experience. One of the math problems we explored today was actually a problem created by Liisa's mom! And to my surprise, it had me stumped. Here's the problem in case you wanted to take a stab at it: Seems simple right? It's your typical "guess how many jelly beans are in the jar" question that you see at raffles, except you're given enough pieces of information that you should be able to come up with the right answer. Like always, I overcomplicated math and instantly resorted to tackling this question algebraically. However, my algebra skills failed me and I didn't get the right number (my final answer was a decimal so something definitely went wrong during the process)! When Liisa asked one of my classmates to share her answer, I was shocked and almost jealous that I hadn't thought of the question that way. My classmate had simply drawn out a jar and split it up based on the information given. S...