Congratulations PCL!

Washington Park celebrated Providence Community
Library's very successful 1st year
with cake, and compliment eggs.
A compliment egg is a left-over plastic easter egg
which has been stuffed with a compliment such as
"You're really smart!" or "I love your shoes" or
"The Incredible Hulk is scared of you."















Below, Bob Medeiros from our friends group
does the honors with the cake. And Lyndsy
and John model commemorative Sears-Roebuck-catalog-like
his-and-hers attire.

300 Cupcakes and Why They Lead To Math

It's shocking but true!!!

Washington Park Library will be hosting the

one-time only 300 Cupcake Event! Will they be beautiful and delicious? Yes. Will poetry or stories be read while others have their mouths full of cupcake? Yes. And who is making and giving us beautiful cupcakes because they can? The fabulous people of Johnson and Wales! Thank you, beautiful bakers!

Here is what's still unknown: what do 300 cupcakes look like?

Because Muktar was working on mixed fractions, which meant we had to talk about math, we started talking about how you can check your math homework by estimating whether your answer was right. And at the same time I was so thinking about our cupcake future. So let's estimate with cupcakes and start looking at estimation.

Start with one beautiful cupcake- then imagine 2- then imagine rows of 2 by 2 by 2 by 2 by 2, rows that are 8 cupcakes across.

Then, imagine you've got those rows that have 8 across, and they're 4 of them. If you can picture the way that looks, that's 8 times 4, which is 32. Now you need almost 10 of that amount, because 10 times 32 is 320. So get rid of some rows, because your estimate is too high. But you're in the zone.

Check out the book Greater Estimations, by Bruce Goldstone- someone from ASF Broad has it right now, but it has pictures that completely explain how to use visual ideas to estimate.