Trivia Time

My mom turned 75 years old yesterday. For fun I put the following trivia question on the board: "Today is Ms. Brown's mother's birthday. How old is she?"

A few kids were intrigued, they noticed the question and asked a few questions.

"How old was she 50 years ago?"
"How old was she when you were born?"

One student responded, "How do we know? We don't even know what she looks like!"

I showed her a picture taken last year that I had behind my desk. She studied it for a minute or two and wrote down her guess...She is 75 years old.

I don't really know what 75 is supposed to look like, but I don't think my mom looks 75. Maybe that's because I'm a lot closer to that age than 12-year-old Claire who made the guess.