Greetings from Prometheus, your host on the Family Math puzzle page.

Though I have not yet materialized in Tompkins County, I should be able to place a weekly puzzle on this page and follow it in a week with a solution.  I will start by fetching puzzles from some of the many excellent puzzle sites that are on the web.  When I get handy with the tools for taking comments and responding, we can begin discussing strategies for problem solving, making up puzzles by request and just generally going where ever our curiosity takes us.

Today's puzzle comes from a particularly steady and respected source, the Middle School Problem of the Week produced by the Latin School of Chicago.
Perhaps they should try hosting a MATH Olympics?

The Water Jug Problem
Imagine that you have at your disposal a supply of water, a 5-gallon container, and a 3-gallon container.  The containers have no markings on them. Your job is to come up with exactly four gallons of water using just the two containers. Write how this could be done.

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