But… The teacher is just flat-out wrong. It says right there in the problem that Marty ate more, and then uses that fact as a foundation for the question of “x is true, HOW can x be true”. It’d be different if the question was “someone claims x is true; is it?”
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King3d@lemmy.world 3 days agoIt’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.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 days ago
howrar@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
The kid actually answered the question. The teacher’s expected response is basically “no, your question is wrong and I refuse to answer it.”
lunarul@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is not a Maths test. Its a comprehension test for a test card series, the question is titled “Reasonableness”.