Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit
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Teachers that don't accept an unexpected but true answer are not teaching. The test taker had a correct take, one of the pizzas could be bigger than the other. It was not specified in the question. I am so glad I am out of school
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The teacher didn't write OR understand the question. It's about reasonableness - that is, not just mindlessly solving math. The solution is that Marty's pizza was bigger, so 4/6 of that was more than 5/6 of Luis', smaller pizza.
There is no lie. The teached is just dumb. Or more likely overworked, but wrong nontheless.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]This is not that level of reasoning. This is basically 4 < 5 if they're both over 6. This is introducing fractions.... It's not that deep.
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It’s fucking dumb. No where did it say the pizzas are equal size. So the kids answer is just as right as her bullshit answer.
The kid actually answered the question. The teacher's expected response is basically "no, your question is wrong and I refuse to answer it."
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I can't find it now and I do not think it really applies here. But someone stated that being high IQ could lead to academic problems as the high IQ learner would understand or see things that the professor could not causing the professor to mark it as incorrect.
I guess this is the idiocracy version of it.
I think this would more likely be an overworked and underpaid situation.
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No, the kid's answer is not "just as right", it is the correct and expected answer. The teacher's answer is wrong and proof the teacher doesn't understand the question. The entire point of the question is understanding that fractions of a whole are relative to that whole and you can't directly compare fractions from different wholes like that. 5/6 > 4/6 doesn't mean Luis ate more pizza than Marty, it means Luis ate a larger share of his pizza than Marty ate out of his own.
This is not a Maths test.
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"This is not possible because..."
This kid is never going to trust teachers again.
He was right. The question is not even worded ambiguously. It was just written very poorly.
Will the teacher admit that? Or is the expectation that this (likely neuro divergent) student should have just understood the expectations based on context clues or something?
The question is not even worded ambiguously. It was just written very poorly.
Its not a Maths test. Its a comprehension test.
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Honestly I suspect the question was phrased poorly. It should have simply said "who ate more pizza" not stated who ate more and request to explain how
The test is for lateral thinking, not for mathematics.
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I've never seen so many people who are proud that they don't understand an elementary-school level math, this is hilarious.
You're the dope that doesn't get the math.
4/6 x > 5/6 y
x > 5/4 y
Where this relation holds the statement is consistent. I think you should revisit some basics.
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Reminds me of the stack of frozen mini pizzas you could get in the 80s.
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Teachers that don't accept an unexpected but true answer are not teaching. The test taker had a correct take, one of the pizzas could be bigger than the other. It was not specified in the question. I am so glad I am out of school
It really seemed like my fellow students lost their interest in math as we went through the grades here in the US.
I still remember a kid in 2nd grade who learned how Roman numerals worked because they were interesting. By grade 6, actively detested math.
Curious.
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I had situations like this at least a few times a year in school.
I usually managed to convince the teacher I was right.And yah this kid is almost certainly ND.
Not just the answer, but the handwriting screams dysgraphia.
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Ahh, fractions and word problems, the bane of my education (seriously, why do we bother with fractions when decimals are easier to compute and express?)
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i can't fathom this being real, most probably this was made for karma farming or something.
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i can't fathom this being real, most probably this was made for karma farming or something.
Also what teacher uses a green felt tip pen?
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Not true. Marty could have also eaten pizza that was not his.
No, "Marty ate 4/6 of his pizza"
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Ahh, fractions and word problems, the bane of my education (seriously, why do we bother with fractions when decimals are easier to compute and express?)
Man, if you can't understand fractions, you don't actually understand the math, you're just trained to use a formula.
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Man, if you can't understand fractions, you don't actually understand the math, you're just trained to use a formula.
I understand fractions, I simply doubt their utility.
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I understand fractions, I simply doubt their utility.
Saying shit like that implies you don't really get that they are the same thing.
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Ahh, fractions and word problems, the bane of my education (seriously, why do we bother with fractions when decimals are easier to compute and express?)
Imo fractions are way more simple in many cases than decimal numbers. Saying 1/3rd is way more useful than hitting someone with the 0.33333333333333....
Quick mental computations with fractions are also simpler in this case. Though this question (and questions like it) seem useless to me indeed. -
I understand fractions, I simply doubt their utility.
For example, they allow you to write
1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1
Which is not possible in decimal
