Cape Fear Community College’s Quality Enhancement Plan is a five year initiative to achieve the following objectives:
1. Improve students’ critical thinking skills at the course, program, and curricular levels;
2. Enhance instructional practices that promote critical thinking and life-long learning;
3. Improve strategies for assessing student learning outcomes; and
4. Provide more effective professional development opportunities for faculty and support staff.
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Brainteaser Answers from the Fall 2011 issue of LINK:
Brainteaser Number 1:
The woman will never finish the book because she will always leave half unfinished. Or will she? . . .
Brainteaser Number 2:
The solution is to send Leno and Letterman over together, have Leno come back and give the flashlight to the two slowest guys, and then have Letterman come back with the flashlight and for Leno and Letterman to cross together again.
Answers for the campus television brainteasers:
A sundial is said to be the timepiece with the fewest moving parts. What is the timepiece with the most moving parts?
Answer: An hourglass—filled with many grains of sand or other granular material.
( from http://school.discoveryeducation.com/brainboosters
/lateral/timetotell.html)
An old man said to a young man, "I have a daughter. She has as many brothers as she has sisters. Each one of her brothers has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many sons and daughters do I have?"
Answer: 3 sons and 4 daughters . . . This is really just a simple algebra problem once you get past the wording of the question.
(from http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/rd7.htm).
A ship is battling against the tide to safety. It uses 9.5 gallons of fuel every hour and sails at 23 mph. It is 34 miles from safety but the flow against it is 12 mph. It has 30 gallons of fuel left. Will it reach safety?
Answer: Barely, with 0.63 gallons left over.
(from http://www.brainhealthandpuzzles.com/
math_brain_teasers.html).
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