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To: mmichaels1970

No. It’s not a fine problem for a child to solve because the child is being taught sloppy and unrealistic thinking: shapes all have sides of integer lengths, unwarranted assumptions can be made to make a problem come out nicely. Rot like this in the grade school curriculum is part of why kids struggle with math.


203 posted on 03/10/2015 9:59:22 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David

Ok. My little brother who wrote for houghton-mifflin and is now and actuary says its a stupid question. So I concede.

He said it reminded him of the people he worked with who knew nothing about the subject of their story problem.

You win.


210 posted on 03/11/2015 5:54:08 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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