“The Napoli football team has an 18-point advantage over the Inter football team . If they earn 3 points for each match won , how many more football matches has the Napoli team won ?”
Napoli's primacy in Serie A becomes an arithmetic problem
The passion for Napoli , in this overwhelming season in Serie A and also in the Champions League , also lands at school , in the form of an arithmetic problem.
It happened last Monday in Torre del Greco , a populous municipality at the foot of Vesuvius , a few kilometers from the Neapolitan capital.
Teacher Lella's invention in Torre del Greco
There, a teacher, Lella , a teacher at the Giacomo Leopardi comprehensive school , thought of making her subject more digestible by coloring it blue and assigning her students a singular task: to explain, through multiplication and subtraction, Napoli 's advantage over its closest pursuer, Inter . The amusing little arithmetic problem then ended up in a Facebook post that many, after commenting amusedly on the initiative, decided to share with their social media friends.



