Education: Foul!

It was just the kind of idea a math teacher would think up. Clearing House, a magazine for teachers, reported a proposal guaranteed to make every U.S. schoolboy master of mixed fractions within six weeks. The proposal: to revise the rules of basketball so that a field goal counts 2⅞, a free throw 1 1/5.

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