Parents baffled by child's homework say they don't even understand the question
A tricky maths question has left parents scratching their heads as they team up to work out the answer. The homework question was posted on social media with the question, ‘how many rhombi are needed to make 6/3’.
The parent shared a photo of a page of their daughter’s math homework and revealed that they had answered ‘six’ but the teacher had marked it wrong and said it was actually ‘two’. They wrote: “I guess I don't understand the question.”
People looking at the fractions problem were equally confused, with many left scratching their heads and suggesting the teacher was incorrect. One person stated: “The teacher is wrong (and more likely, the test key is wrong). As worded, the question asks how many rhombi are needed to form 6/3 (two wholes).
“The whole shape is NOT a rhombus, it is a hexagon. The only correct answer is: ‘It takes 6 rhombi to form 2 hexagons’. The question that would be correctly answered as ‘2’ is some variation of: How many hexagons can be created from 6 rhombi.”
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However, when someone put the problem into Google for the answer, they were assured the answer was correct. They shared: “Each rhombus represents one-third of the whole. How many rhombi are needed to make six-thirds? Since each rhombus represents one-third of the whole, then six-thirds is equal to two rhombi. So the answer is two.”
It’s not the first time a child’s homework has left parents feeling inadequate. Texas mum Tiesha Sanders shared a photo of a page of her child’s year one math homework and the question required the child to fill in two boxes, one titled "tens" and one titled "ones" for the number '27'. The girl filled out the "tens" column with a two and the "ones" column with the number seven – a seemingly logical choice.
When the question was marked as wrong it left Tiesha confused and she contacted the child's teacher for an explanation, writing on the homework sheet: "Hello, I just wanted to ask how Summer got #3 wrong? Her father and I were going over her mistakes and wanted to be sure we were on the right track. The teacher wrote back: "Hello this is the new math they have us teaching." The teacher then drew a diagram of the correct answer, adding: "It wants her to know that having two tens and seven ones is the same as 27 ones.”
The still-puzzled mum said in the post that she had been a primary school teacher for six years and had never come across this style of question before, adding: "This new math is NOT it." Her post attracted 3700 comments, with all of them saying that they understood why Tiesha might be wondering why it was marked as being wrong.
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