Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for January 17, 2013

Eh?Zirconium is a chemical element with the symbol Zr, atomic number 40Plutonium – Boiling point 3505 K, 3228 °C, 5842 °F

Ref: Periodic Table of Elements

Wouldn’t it have been easier to do the math than spell plutonium or zirconium?

Its CLOSE, but you have to use the Celsius boiling point

3232 – 40 = 3192

Hope he remembers this when he becomes a teacher, foreshadow, I think, by Michael wearing a matching green plaid shirt as does his teacher.

Or can he?

I did all that work to find out that he’s 3 off, when he implies in the strip that his answer is wrong. Why am I still upset?

take it the teacher never heard of Goggle.

I too went on an Internet search….. as posted earlier by others…. Michael is soooo wrong. If he wanted to get out of math then he should have at least made sure his answer was correct. No matter what he wrote.