Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Counting to 10
by Sandy Wood - June 17, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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There has been heated debate recently over the value of shows like Sesame Street on the education of our youth. I was two years old when the show premiered back in 1969, and I know that it did a lot for me during my preschool days. One of the key things I learned was how to count, which gave me the ability to come up with today’s Brain Game. (A hint? Probably.) Good luck!

The following series represents the numbers
1 through 10. What’s the last number?

3, 3, 4, 6, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, ?.

Here is the ANSWER.
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Comments (5)

  1. There’s actually been debate? Who would ever deny the value of Sesame Street?

    posted by Mike on 6-17-2009 at 8:51 am

  2. um, seis has 4 letters not 6. But a good one. Stumped me.

    posted by Lee on 6-17-2009 at 8:57 am

  3. Yeah, the puzzle was right, but the answer isn’t (the puzzle is 3, 3, 4, 6, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, ?). But you stumped me too!

    posted by Lindseydl on 6-17-2009 at 9:59 am

  4. Oh, right, I had seis as having 6 letters in the explanation — my bad. All fixed!

    posted by Sandy Wood on 6-17-2009 at 10:24 am

  5. There’s been debate on the value of pretty much all children’s programming including Sesame Street.

    The two main camps are those who argue that the act of watching TV is too passive a learning method and teaches children to just sit in front of the idiot box and absorb whatever messages spew out. They get conditioned to do this on the relatively nutritious Sesame Street, but will eventually do the same for more mindless Nickelodeon type shows and (more importantly) the commercials that come along with them.

    I’ve also seen people who claim that the editing style of Sesame Street shortens attention spans, but that doesn’t get anywhere near the play of the first group.

    posted by EMStoveken on 6-17-2009 at 10:24 am

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