Posted on 02/21/2022 9:27:20 AM PST by servo1969
Does rectangle deep-dish a.k.a. sicilian pizza count?
Hey, if you want an off-the-wall answer the kid could've said:
Marty obviously takes much smaller bites than Luis. So even though by weight/volume/area Luis ate more, in terms of bites of pizza Marty ate more bites of pizza...
That would probably tag the poor kid as a future defense attorney... ;-)
It’s been said you can fail a psych test by knowing too little or knowing too much. Maybe that’s become true of math also.
Actually, that's not "off the Wall", it's "out of the box", and a very constructive and analytical way of thinking.
It would be possible to specify that the answer be "the number of bites eaten and why".
Now you have two unknowns (Size of pizza, and size of bites) and no sure correct answer.
It's good to be able to see that possibility.
Marty’s white privilege allowed him to get a bigger pizza than brown Luis.
Clearly this child is a racist.
-PJ
So true, but keep him in the public schools and he will turn out as dumb as the “teacher” (propagandist).
I was once put out of a spelling bee (50 years ago), when our teacher asked me to spell “wrench”. I asked her if she would use it in a sentence. She said, “You know, like you’re trying to wrench something out!”
She was one of only a few African-American teachers at our school in those days, and all of us young kids were trying hard to understand her dialect.
Well, I could only give it a shot, since I still didn’t understand. Turns out w-r-e-n-c-h is not the way to spell “rinse”, which is what she thought she was saying.
In A Confederacy of Dunces, which I’ve read about eight times, there’s a part where one of the women says they’re going to “wrench” out a glass, but the passage suggested she was drunk when she said it. She was going to wrench it out in the zink. That’s New Orleans.
This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)
The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.
Hang on, take a look at the title: “Reasonableness”
Even in grade school, when we got an answer we were taught to ask ourselves, “Is that reasonable?” For instance, if we came up with an answer of say, 17, for the answer to 18 + 20, that couldn’t be reasonable, since both numbers were greater than 17 to begin with.
In context - the child is being asked if it is reasonable that 4/6 could be greater than 5/6. The answer is no - IF the pizzas are of equal size. This is an assumption that has to be made in the CONTEXT of the question.
BUT THAT IS NOT THE QUESTION THAT WAS ASKED. The child’s answer is what immediately popped into my head, due to the way the question was asked.
How should the question read for the teacher to be correct?
“If both pizzas are the same, is it reasonable to say that Marty ate more pizza?”
I my work, I consistently insist that terms be defined and questions be clear in any and everything I do. So many people think that the way THEY think is the only proper way to think. This is a sign of arrogance. In Washington, and in academia, that’s the way of life.
Yore dum.
Ah, so YOU are the one who thought up the question!
There was a big kerfuffle about a decade ago where a whole bunch of articles and discussion came out about not using red to mark wrong answers as it hurts self-esteem. Guessing this educated idiot bought into it.
Interesting. Never knew that. Thanks.
I find women in general like trick questions, and often questions with illogical answers. They think tricking someone makes them smart.
As question standing by itself it is vague. Unless the class lesson of the day was to teach if one’s answer is reasonable as a quick way to check your math answers. Context is often important in questions.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.