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Sorry, I don't have a giveaway attached to this unless you want the contents of the bag. ;) Fair warning, they may be rather pungent by the time they get to you. :rolleyes:

My wife teaches kindergarten. She loves the kids. For halloween, she bought and carved a pumpkin for the class.

She does this every year and saves the seeds from the pumpkin. The kids get to guess how many seeds there are and then the class counts them together.

I think this is in the category of fun and creative teaching. I never had teachers like that!

Anyhoo, I snapped some pics of the seeds and thought I'd let you ladies and gents take a shot at guessing (estimating/calculating for you engineers out there) how many seeds are in the bag.

It was a medium sized pumpkin and this is a standard sandwich bag. The number of seeds is written on the back of the bag for those of you with x-ray vision or telepathic gifts.

Lets see if the mature, sharp crowd on the forum can beat my wife's class of 5 year olds! If you have the nerve...:D

I'll reveal the answer and her classes best guest Monday P.M. (wife has a CE class tomorrow and won't do this till Monday).

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There is a phenomenon called The Wisdom Of Crowds. What it means is that if you conduct a guessing exercise similar to this one, the average of the guesses will be very close to the actual number. This would be a good time to test that.

I will guess 414.
 
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