Schools on the Planet Zorg

School on the Planet Zorg are more like NASA launch pads. The baby astro mice arrive at school in space shuttles. Classes start at nine light years ahead of the millenium and end at three degrees past Saturn. Lights out at midnight when the moon travels behind the Sun - but of course, some of the astro mice stay awake all night, counting the twinkling stars, trying to get them to blow out and taking pot shots with air rifles at the various constellations. The timetable, or Sun's orbit includes study about the stars in the solar system and joining the dot - to - dot. For lunch, there are always lots of Milky Way nibbles ... with moondust, washed down river water from the mountains of Venus (that gets all the astro mice drunk !). When they hiccup, the stars explode - that's why they twinkle in the night sky. When the astro mice school children sneeze, the stars become shooting stars ... and head off around the Solar System. Like the Planet Zorg, schools on the Planet Zorg are made out of cream cheese ... The caretaker astro mice, is a kind old gentleman with white whiskers and a crooked tail. He helps all the children with their homework about mozarella and gorgonzola cheese. Generally, the astro mice love school ... though holding a pen is difficult when you have claws in your paws. The astro children study mice mathematics to help when they grow up as astro astronauts ... and astrology and science like chemistry and physics, of course. They also study map - reading so they don't get lost in the galaxy.

Schools on the Planet Zorg Mathematics Activity

1. Each Astro mice took 45 minutes in a space shuttle to get to school. The school was 450 miles away - how fast did they travel ?

2. If classes start at nine light years ahead of the millenium and end at three degrees past Saturn. Saturn was 2, 586, 320 miles away, travelling at this speed, how long would it take the Astro mice to get there ?

3. The Astro mice studies astonomy in school. Each of the various constellations contained 28, 654, 925 stars and there were 50 constellations - how many stars is that ?.

4. When the Astro mice study physics, they read 5 approximately in one hour. Each page has 25 mathematical equations in it. In a typical 8 hour school day - how many maths sums do they read ?

5. In the Zorgian Milky Way, there are 67 meteorites for every planet, and 789 planets. How many meteorites is that ?

© Jacqueline Richards 2005

Answers : 1. 450/45 = 10 miles per hour 2. 2, 586, 320 / 10 = 258, 632 hours 3. 28, 654, 925 x 50 = 14, 327462 stars 4. 5 x 25 x 8 = 1, 000 5. 789 x 67 = 52, 863