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Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit

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  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When I was in elementary, my teacher said that “Lutetia” was how the Romans called the city of Liege. As an avid reader of Asterix comics, I knew this isn’t true and corrected her and said it was the Roman name of Paris. She insisted that it is Liege. Anyway, the next day, she came back to class and said that she looked it up and that I was indeed correct and Lutetia referred to Paris and gave me a chocolate bar.

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In elementary school our teacher asked us to spell the current year with roman numerals, so I worked out “MCMXCVIII”, which I was quite proud of. Instead the teacher came back at me quite snarky and said it’s much easier to do “IIMM”, just substract 2 from 2000, duh!

      It was only years later when I accidently learned that he was indeed full of shit and I was right all along.

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      • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        it’s much easier to just substract 2 from 2000, “IIMM” duh!

        For anyone wondering why this is wrong, there are two reasons:

        1. The roman numeral system only traditionally contains subtractions from the next higher five- and tenfold symbol. So you can subtract I from V and X, X from L and C, C from D and M

        2. The subtractions only generally allowed one symbol to be subtracted, with a few notable exceptions like XIIX for 18 and XXIIX for 28

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It would’ve been easier to pretend it was 2000 and just write MM

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I had a HS teacher say the the 2nd to 5th richest people were the Walton(of Walmart) family heirs. I knew this wasn’t right because at the time, Steve Balmer(of Microsoft) was the 5th or something. I printed out the Forbe list and brought it in. The teacher coped by saying that if you combined the Walton wealth, it would rank that high. He was a POS teacher for more significant reasons than that though.

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      • SARGE@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I once got in trouble with my math teacher for saying “well if we’re just making things up, then sure [I cheated on a math test while sitting in the front of class where the teacher can see but I was using some kind of hidden code on my t-shirt that was a bunch of Shakespearean insults] . But what about all that Crack you were doing in your car this morning?”

        Apparently my "making things up"was a slightly more serious than his. I stand by it. If we’re making shit up, we’re making shit up.

        For the record, this geometry teacher was convinced I was cheating in class because I didn’t do homework. Homework was 5% of the final grade for the year according to his syllabus, I hated homework, so I figured as long as I didn’t suck at the rest of the class, I could do 0 homework and pass. I was right, passed with a 94%

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In my country, the written final exams include a Q&A section in the beginning of the test, where the teacher and the headmaster are present, and where they present the tasks and students are allowed to ask questions. After that section, the headmaster leaves and students and teachers aren’t allowed to talk for the rest of the test.

      I noticed a missing specification in one of the tasks. It was a 3D geometry task, and it was missing one angle, thus allowing for infinite correct results. During the Q&A section I asked about that, and my teacher looked sternly past me to the end of the room and said “I am sure the specifications are correct”. If there was an actual error in the specifications, the whole test would have been voided and would have to be repeated at a later date, for all the students attending.

      As soon as the headmaster was out of the room, he came to me and asked where he made the mistake. He then wrote a fitting spec on the whiteboard.

      I liked that guy. He was a good teacher.

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I always knew someone else knew about the series!

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      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Asterix was pretty popular in the 90s Central Europe. The movies were in theaters, the older ones got prime time slots on TV, the comics were in every book store’s kids section.

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      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        An animated miniseries came out this year too

        en.wikipedia.org/…/Asterix_and_Obelix%253A_The_Bi…

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      • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What do you mean someone else? Who doesnt?

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    • sigezayaq@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      haha, I also got some points in school for knowing that Lutetia is Paris, which I also found out by reading Asterix

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    • thedarkfly@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Dang, in which country are you talking about Liège in elementary school?

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      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Germany. IIRC the topic was Romans, not Liege specifically.

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  • leadore@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is bizarre. The info provided in the question was that Marty ate more than Luis, the question was how would that be possible given that Mario ate 4/6 of his while Luis ate 5/6 of his. The answer the kid wrote (Marty’s pizza was bigger than Luis’) is the only possible correct answer.

    The grader is asserting that the information given in the question was wrong and that “actually it was Luis who ate more pizza”–even though it stated as a premise that “Marty ate more”. How are you supposed to give a correct answer on a test if you are expected to accept one premise (proportion of pizzas eaten) while disregarding another premise (Marty ate more than Luis)? How do you decide which part to disregard? Would they have accepted the answer, “Luis actually only ate 3/6 of his pizza, not 5/6)”? Wouldn’t that be just as valid an answer as “Marty actually didn’t eat more than Luis”?

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    • Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Agree, this question is such hot shit that I can’t imagine it popping up in any real world maths test

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      • leadore@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And by gaslighting the kids, they’re teaching them not to trust their own ability to reason, crushing their critical thinking skills. It sets them up to submit to authoritarianism and go along with obvious lies instead of trusting their own senses and questioning authority.

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      • TheKingBee@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The question is good, how given one smaller and one larger fraction could the person eating a smaller percent still have eaten more total pizza. That’s a fun brain puzzle.

        The problem is the teacher.

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  • Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The teacher is fucking stupid. The question says Marty ate more, that is not only possible it is a given.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The teacher is fucking stupid.

      The teacher is likely under-trained, overworked, and under-qualified for the class. Common in districts where the focus of the administration is driving down the cost of education rather than delivering the highest quality.

      That is, of course, assuming this is a real homework and not some agitprop churned out by a Facebook group or a social media account more interested in generating outrage than education.

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      • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        With the choice of marker, I’d say its rage bait.

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      • Shayeta@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        “Under-qualified” for the class? Are we really setting the bar beneath the level of a grade schooler?

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    • Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I agree, the kid is correct. This is the only viable answer.

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      • Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Not true. Marty could have also eaten pizza that was not his.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why would you ask “How is this possible” when you expect the answer to be “it’s not”?

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    • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Teacher got the worksheet from someone else and didn’t know the answer.

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      • SARGE@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Or teacher didn’t even see this, handed it to a high school student and said “grade this stack of papers”

        I had that happen several times in science classes in 3rd-8th grade. Eventually I started arguing with the teachers in class, and boy did they not like being corrected.

        Sorry Ms Avery, you not knowing that “Pb” is the abbreviation of the Latin word “plumbum”, where we also get “plumbing” from due to its use in piping in rome, doesn’t mean I got the answer wrong. To her credit, she looked it up and changed my grade before the end of class.

        Ms hoschouli from 7th grade can get fucked though, a parallel circuit increases amperage load, not voltage load. I knew more about electronics in 7th grade than a college graduate who teaches science class, which in hindsight isn’t that impressive considering it was general science and not electronics specific… But in 7th grade, as far as I was concerned I was hot shit for knowing more than the teacher, and getting detention for calling her out in the middle of class. Never got the grade changed and I only got out of detention because my parents called the school.

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    • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Because these “teacher is dumber than a child” pictures are always fake. I’ve never seen a teacher write corrections on a student’s paper. Are they doing that for every wrong question on every paper? That would take forever!

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      • 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This happens all the time, at least in Germany. My teachers did it, and I do it too.

        The picture is probably still ragebait.

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      • Signtist@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You can’t teach if you don’t identify where the students are getting things wrong and correct them. It’s one of the major reasons why teachers deserve so much more pay. My wife used to be a teacher, and she worked 2-3 hours past the end of school correcting students’ work pretty much every weekday, and spent several hours every weekend planning out her lessons for the following week. She got paid significantly less than me working in a basic entry-level 9-5 office position.

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      • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        How are you supposed to learn if they don’t tell you how to do it better? Not writing corrections seems like bad teaching to me

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Some people become teachers because they love to educate children.

        Some people become teachers because they have no control in their life and want to be the boss if something.

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      • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Are they doing that for every wrong question on every paper? That would take forever!

        I work in education in Texas. Yes, they do. And yes, it does. Now, most things are digital, so they have kids make a copy of the Google Doc and then grade that and leave comments on it. But if they have paper assignments, they often leave notes on them. Leaving notes on assignments and tests/quizzes (which is likely what this was) is part of their professional review.

        Also, part of their regular professional review is whether or not they’re keeping proper documentation on student behavior. Different tiers of behavioral issues require different documentation/communication. So, not only are they writing notes on tests/assignments, they’re writing documentation on hundreds of students, contacting dozens of parents, creating lesson plans that have to be available in advance for parental review in case any parents want to dispute the materials, and they’re getting regular reviews.

        And then, when all the kids are off enjoying summer, the teachers are working their summer job to supplement their shitty pay. And they’re going to mandatory “Professional Learning” courses to keep their teaching certification, some of which they are required to pay from their own pocket to attend.

        In San Antonio, we don’t really have any “small” districts, so the numbers in the second paragraph assumes an elementary school of 300-600, middle school of 800-1200, or high school of 1200-2000 students.

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      • Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I was told in 6th or 7th grade science class that you can’t hear underwater

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      • SARGE@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ohio resident for grade school, they did it at 4 different school districts across every grade.

        Can’t speak for anyone else.

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      • AugustWest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Because the teacher is wrong and it’s an idiotic question.

        The question asks the child to explain how Marty ate more pizza than Louis. “He didn’t” is not an appropriate answer to that question.

        We know that Marty and Louis didn’t eat from the same pizza, because Marty ate 4/6 of a pizza and Louis ate 5/6 of a pizza. We also know that Marty did eat more, because it’s right there in the question.

        The only logical answer is that Marty’s pizza is bigger, and so 4/6 of his pizza amounts to more pizza than 5/6 of Louis’s smaller pizza.

        The question should have been “Marty ate 4/6 of a pizza and Louis ate 5/6 of a pizza. Explain who ate more pizza.”

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  • Iambus@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is genuinely baffling. What was that teacher on.

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  • fiddledeedee@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    that kid passes my class with honors

    the teacher is a moron

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    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same. Question sucks. Teacher is a tool. Kid needs bonus points for a creative solution.

      This always pissed me off about all formal school. They don’t want a good answer, they don’t even want the correct answer. They want you to give them the answer they previously told you to give them, regardless of all other factors.

      Real life doesn’t work like that. In reality, the “correct” answer is anything that completes the objective. In this scenario, the answer provided was reasonable, logical and most importantly, it was not incorrect.

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  • Mniot@programming.dev ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The title of this post is disappointing. The given answer is sound and it seems safe to assume it was arrived at by thinking mathematically.

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    • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Right? He’s rationally explaining how that was possible given the question of “how” it is possible. In my opinion that question was written poorly.

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  • sandflavoured@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I suspect many commenters are missing the point, the student’s response can only be the correct and expected answer to this question. Teacher has it wrong.

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    • Enkimaru@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No. The teacher did not have it wrong. Does not mean the student is right … Marty and Luis both had their own pizza. Marty had a big pizza and “only” managed to eat 4/6th of it. Luis had a small pizza, and “only” managed to eat 5/6th of his. If you want to give a nitpicking correct answer: a single pizza does not have (4 + 5)/6th pieces. x/6th implies the pizza(s) were divided into 6 parts … so: it can only be 2 pizzas.

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      • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, it can only be two pizzas. The question is “how is this possible” which is correctly answered by the student. The teacher talking like that’s not how pizza works, is indeed incorrect.

        4/6 of a 10” pizza is more pizza than 5/6 of a 6” pizza.

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      • cactopuses@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’ve read this a few times and I’m genuinely not sure I understand what you’re saying.

        4/6th is a smaller ratio than 5/6 the only way for 4/6 to be greater would be for the area to increase.

        Expressed as percentages it would be 66% (approx) eaten vs 83% (approx) where the person that ate 66% ate more pizza. The only way that’s possible is if the area of the pizza that 66% of was consumed was greater. (Strictly speaking the volume could be at play here too but I’m going to assume they’re the same height for the question).

        I genuinely don’t see any way his thinking was wrong, or how this could be answered another way.

        I might genuinely be missing something but if so this question is poorly worded.

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  • waspentalive@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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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    • djehuti@programming.dev ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This answer shouldn’t have been unexpected, given that it’s the correct answer.

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      • waspentalive@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The test key has the expected answer, which may even be wrong. If the test taker responds with something else, even if it solves the problem, it is not the expected answer. It’s stupid.

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    • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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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    • Soulg@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Kid should’ve gotten half credit at the very least.

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  • SassyRamen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Take that to the principal, stupid teachers shouldn’t teach

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Reminds me of the time when I got send to the principle for saying “fuck you” during class. I was saying it to a classmate, but the teacher felt it was directed at her.

      Anyway, the principle (herself a German teacher, this happend in Germany) gave me detention and wrote a letter to my parents, saying it was because I made a sexist remark towards a teacher.

      My Dad wrote back explaining the difference between a sexist and an obscene remark. They canceled my detention.

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      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I was once called down to the principal’s office and told I would be expelled from my Catholic school because in spite of my catholic upbringing, I was an atheist (in the US, at a time when this was obviously unconstitutional, given that the school accepted non catholic students of other religions). They called my dad and had me wait in the hall outside the principal’s office. For context, my dad’s an agnostic who doesn’t harbor any positive views towards the Catholic Church, but is a huge fan of educators and would always side with the teacher, no matter how unfair they were being.

        My dad went straight in without acknowledging me and spoke with them inaudibly for about a minute, before the secretary came out and sent me back to class. I never heard anything about it from the school again and when my dad got home, he just said I didn’t need to worry about it. Decades later, he still won’t tell me exactly what happened, but I honestly think he might have forgotten and doesn’t want to admit it.

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      • SassyRamen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Das ist echt krass xD Dein Papa hat vollkommen Recht

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    • tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Tge principal is not necessarily any smarter than the teachers. Often it’s the opposite.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      … or have a bit of empathy and talk to the teacher like a human.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ah, a teacher that does not comprehend the barometer

    Two other right answers:

    • Luis’ pizza is at least <whatever is the correct fraction> smaller than Marty’s (which is basically the same answer as the kid’s)
    • Marty ate someone else’s pizza besides his own

    And, for funsies:

    • Luis’ pizza is 50% crust, so it doesn’t fully count as pizza
    • Luis doesn’t like pizza and actually fed the dog while nobody was looking
    • Marty is many years older than Luis, therefore he has eaten many years’ worth of pizza ahead of Luis
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    • MothmanLives@lemdro.id ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well the question does assign ownership to the pizza, so Marty can eat his pizza then give it to Luis making it his pizza

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    • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      correct fraction = 4/5, as in, Luis’ pizza is smaller than the 4/5 (80%) of Marty’s pizza.

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    • okmko@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is completely unrelated but I cannot believe Calandra is a real world name.

      The designers of the video game Path of Exile should’ve called their super rare item “Kalandra’s Barometer” instead of “Kalandra’s Mirror”.

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  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    i can’t fathom this being real, most probably this was made for karma farming or something.

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    • edgesmash@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Teachers like this exist. One of my kids had an elementary school teacher like this. Two examples:

      1. The math assignment was about currency denominations; what coins and bills you need to make up $7.42, for example. My kid answered using $2 bills (uncommon in the US but still printed), as we have them at home. Teacher marked the answer wrong because teacher didn’t mention $2 bills in class.
      2. The writing assignment was to rewrite the Snow White story from the perspective of another character. My kid, having read a bunch of those “twisted tales” and recently fallen in love with “Wicked”, wrote from the evil queen’s perspective and made her a sympathetic character. Teacher marked her down for “changing the story” without acknowledging my kid’s creativity. Teacher did not back down when we confronted her on this during our parent teacher conference.

      (FWIW, in both cases we reassured our kid that they did great in both cases, and that we were proud of them.)

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      • Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Teacher : draw a triangle with sides of length 1 inch, 2 inches and 3 inches

        Kid : but you can’t do that. You get a 3 inch line. Other students proceed to draw skinny triangles.

        Teacher : you’re wrong Kid. Everybody else can do it, what’s your problem?

        True story.

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    • camelbeard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Also what teacher uses a green felt tip pen?

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  • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Commendable for the kid to be thinking outside of the box, and a bit shitty of the teacher for not giving them maybe half a point (because it’s a correct answer, but not the correct/expected answer). The test maker is also to blame - they should’ve taken care to eliminate all ambiguity - it’s a math test after all.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The teachers response is incorrect. It is stated as fact that marty ate more pizza.

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      • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh, yes, you’re right! I read the question again.

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    • djehuti@programming.dev ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The kid’s answer is the only correct answer. It’s not half right, or 5/6 or 4/6 right. It’s the only correct answer that fits the question. The teacher is a moron who has no business in a math classroom except as a remedial student.

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Marty could’ve eaten someone else’s pizza besides his own, which would also make it a correct answer. The question didn’t say he ate 4/6 of his pizza and nothing else

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      • djehuti@programming.dev ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My wife has pointed out that there is indeed one other correct answer. One kids is bigger – OR, the other kid’s is smaller. TWO right answers.

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  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I… Um… I’ve been looking at this for a minute and I can’t tell why the answer is unconventional, not what the fuck the teacher is on about.

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    • Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The kid answered correctly, it’s not unconventional at all, the teacher is just stupid

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    • King3d@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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      • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        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.

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    • uniquethrowagay@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The question asks “How is this possible?”
      What they mean to ask is “is this statement true if both pizzas are the same size?”. To test whether the kids can compare fractures. It’s wrongly worded and the reaction is bad. If any of it is real.

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Given 4/6 x > 5/6 y therefore x > 5/4 y

    Marty’s Pizza must have been more than a quarter larger than Luis’. The kid is exactly right. And the teacher is not flexible enough to engage outside their expectations for how the question was supposed to be answered.

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is entirely possible and his answer was correct.

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  • plasticbuddha@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The statement and question make perfect sense. The kid has the only “reasonable” answer.

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  • ExtremeDullard@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The teacher is the one who’s confused here. The kid is entirely correct.

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  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Curriculum and unappetizing methods of teaching are the problems.

    This kid has the right to question, to speak out what’s really logical, and is likely to be more street-wise.

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  • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The equivalent of whats going on in the teachers head.

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  • vala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “This is not possible because…”

    This kid is never going to trust teachers again.

    He was right.

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  • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This brings back memories of when I realized that I was smarter than most of my teachers.

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  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Some real “steel is heavier than feathers” energy coming off this teacher.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Math education in the empire is TERRIBLE. There is no actual math taught. At best it’s applied analogies. The teachers have never taken any advanced math so they don’t even know what they’re not teaching. The goals (eg. calculus) are completely worthless. The entire system is stuck in the 1700s. It’s a complete failure. This image is just the tiniest tip of the iceberg.

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  • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So this was a trick question? Because the student’s answer is correct. That’s the only way it’s possible. Was the answer supposed to be that it’s not possible? I’m a grown adult and I find this question unclear so I’m surprised this was asked to a young child in this way.

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  • TomasEkeli@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Marty’s pizza is larger. 4/6ths of a 3kg pizza is more than 5/6ths of a 1kg pizza

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    lol this is actually a golden answer and that is why we need better teachers

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  • varnia@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The statement and the question do not make any kind of sense. Would make more sense to ask who ate more pizza when one ate 2/3 and another one ate 3/4 of an equally sized pizza.

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  • Binturong@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    it’s fairly clear there are two pizzas, but as to ‘how’ someone eats more than someone else… this is not really a simple math question, there are too many unknown variables. Maybe one has Bulemia, maybe one of them is 6’9" and has a much bigger appetite. Maybe one of the people has a congenital deformity resulting in two mouths… This question is not a math question, it’s an exercise in creativity.

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