[where's_the_Outrage?]

Just had to share this, some engineers and math geeks should get a kick out of it.

[ClearCase_guy]

The correct answer is always Marxist revolution.

[cgbg]

I think we need to ask this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor

:-)

[maro]

You first have to define what you mean by side.

[Jyotishi]

https://www.reference.com/world-view/many-sides-circle-a9188ad96242526d

[Spirit of Liberty]

Starting awful early on that ‘2+2=5 depending on how you define all the factors’ crap.

[ifinnegan]

I think infinite is correct, but for a first grader, none.

The other answer you suggest are fun but I think are more word game and not relevant to teaching math.

[polymuser]

It seems equivalent to “How may faces does a sphere have?”

[falcon99]

The reason behind this question is to teach/indoctrinate kids at a very early age that there is no right or wrong answers, that everything is relative. That is the basis of the leftist ideology.

[freedumb2003]

Only the left side (/SJW teacher answer).

[Manic_Episode]

ID, OD, top and bottom.

[rightwingcrazy]

I did very well on these sorts of questions in grade school. One reason was, when the question was ambiguous, I tried to think like the teacher.

I don’t know this 1st grade teacher, but if I had to guess, I’d say s/he would be expecting the answer “1 side”. If it were a smart aleck 8th grade math teacher, I’d go for “2 sides”. If it were a pedantic, blockhead 11th grade teacher, I’d go for “no sides”.

[PGR88]

Geometry is a racist construct.

[loucon]

How many sides does our moon have. I’ve seen only one, but I guess that’s relative to your position in relation to the moon. So, since there are an infinite number of positions one could view the moon from, there are an infinite number of sides to the moon.

Everyone is thinking of the circle and how it would appear if drawn on a sheet of paper. You need to think three dimentionally and view the circle from the “side” so that it would appear to you as a line of fixed length. Now rotate your viewing position around the center of the circle on the same plain as the circle and there you go. An infinite number of sides.

[dartuser]

Each of the "correct" answers is using a different definition of "side" to come to the conclusion.

If you can't articulate the definition of "side," the question of how many sides is not really mathematical.

[blueunicorn6]

The answer is: orange

[CodeToad]

On paper, a top side and a bottom side too!

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I checked the internet and Twitter has banned all answers.

[Osage Orange]

What’s inside the circle?

[myerson]

If the circle is in a plane, like a coin, then there are 2 sides, heads and tails.

[Grampa Dave]

A circle has 2 sides. It has an inside and an outside!