• Double_A@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Exactly! The answer the kid gave is the “correct” one because it shows a proper reasoning about fractions. While the teachers logic assumes that fractions are some kind of absolute value of measure???

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      2 years ago

      That’s what annoys me with marking that as wrong. The kid clearly understood the problem.

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      2 years ago

      The teacher’s from another timeline where the “pizza” made it into SI as the standard unit of food area.