That's ridiculous. Pencils also tend to be a little longer than 15 cm (only 6 inches). And 1.5 cm (more than half an inch) makes for one very wide pencil.
You know, for an exercise in feel-good "education," that teacher did an awful job of raising your daughter's self-esteem. And for there to be a "correct" answer on a question that relies mostly on one's imagination is also ludicrous. But then again, the liberal education establishment doesn't care what a student's answers are to mathematics problems.
Actually, on second thought, that sort of thing is entirely in line with liberal thinking. Liberals want people to be stupid, so that they can force their agenda on an unsuspecting public. But they do want people to think like them, i.e., agree with their subjective views of the world. So they really don't care if you can add, as long as you'll agree that something that is very unlikely to be a pencil (I have never seen a pencil as the one described in this exercise) actually is a pencil.
Or, perhaps I'm just thinking about this a bit too much.
And that was 37 yrs ago.
It would be impossible to make a case that that ridiculous and wasteful and corrupt institution has improved since that time.
N.B. The school(s) I attended were in a school system ''highly rated'' by the state (as if 20th century American public schools were in ANY way ''systematic'', except in their relative incompetence and incidental tyranny).
Reached my own conclusion about this lot, long ago and as a participant, and of which view you may be absolutely certain.
Absolutely. The kicker is that the teacher told her she could do better than that. She needs to think "outside the box." She needs to? I think he needs to think and quit relying on the teacher's answer sheet. The answer is pencil because my answer sheet said it is. LOL. Those who can do. Those who can't teach and get summers off.