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[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I can't find it now and I do not think it really applies here. But someone stated that being high IQ could lead to academic problems as the high IQ learner would understand or see things that the professor could not causing the professor to mark it as incorrect.

I guess this is the idiocracy version of it.

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[–] josefo@leminal.space 84 points 3 days ago (16 children)

If you state that Marty ate more as part of the question, you cannot answer in any other way, because it denies mathematical logic here. You introduced a lie as part of the problem, and if I need to decide myself which part of the statement is a lie, I can pick whatever I want, let's say, Marty didn't ate 4/6, but 6/6. This teacher should be taken to the gulag.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is answered exactly correctly, and also demonstrates that the child has a strong grasp of how fractions work. 3/4 of 2 is greater than 4/4 of 1, even though 4/4 is a larger fraction than 3/4.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 56 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Given 4/6 x > 5/6 y therefore x > 5/4 y

Marty's Pizza must have been more than a quarter larger than Luis'. The kid is exactly right.

And the teacher is not flexible enough to engage outside their expectations for how the question was supposed to be answered.

Clearly the expectation was for the kids to take the unstated assumption that the two pizzas were of the same size, and reject the premise as unreasonable (note the heading "Reasonableness").

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[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 102 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Take that to the principal, stupid teachers shouldn't teach

[–] remon@ani.social 70 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Reminds me of the time when I got send to the principle for saying "fuck you" during class. I was saying it to a classmate, but the teacher felt it was directed at her.

Anyway, the principle (herself a German teacher, this happend in Germany) gave me detention and wrote a letter to my parents, saying it was because I made a sexist remark towards a teacher.

My Dad wrote back explaining the difference between a sexist and an obscene remark. They canceled my detention and I never heard about it again.

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[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So this was a trick question? Because the student's answer is correct. That's the only way it's possible. Was the answer supposed to be that it's not possible? I'm a grown adult and I find this question unclear so I'm surprised this was asked to a young child in this way.

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[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 77 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It is entirely possible and his answer was correct. Question was phrased incorrectly, if the teacher wanted an answer "it is not possible" he should have said both pizzas were the same size.

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[–] vala@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

"This is not possible because..."

This kid is never going to trust teachers again.

He was right. The question is not even worded ambiguously. It was just written very poorly.

Will the teacher admit that? Or is the expectation that this (likely neuro divergent) student should have just understood the expectations based on context clues or something?

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[–] ExtremeDullard@sopuli.xyz 66 points 3 days ago

The teacher is the one who's confused here. The kid is entirely correct.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago

This brings back memories of when I realized that I was smarter than most of my teachers.

[–] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 16 points 2 days ago

Marty's pizza is larger. 4/6ths of a 3kg pizza is more than 5/6ths of a 1kg pizza

[–] varnia@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The statement and the question do not make any kind of sense. Would make more sense to ask who ate more pizza when one ate 2/3 and another one ate 3/4 of an equally sized pizza.

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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 34 points 3 days ago

Some real "steel is heavier than feathers" energy coming off this teacher.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

Math education in the empire is TERRIBLE. There is no actual math taught. At best it's applied analogies like this pizza BS. The teachers have never taken any advanced math so they don't even know what they're not teaching. The goals (eg. calculus) are completely worthless. The entire system is stuck in the 1700s. It's a complete failure. It's intentional too. The goal is creating obedient, little computers not critical thinkers. That would be a threat to the system. This image is just the tiniest tip of the iceberg.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

lol this is actually a golden answer and that is why we need better teachers

[–] yarr@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago

This post shows the difference between school and education. The school system is there to get a child to be able to regurgitate whatever the lesson says they should. Education is to develop knowledge as a whole.

It is sad that the teacher was not even able to consider the flawed nature of the question, because they are trained to just see if the student's answer matches the answer key for the test.

In many cases, the public education system no longer exists to deliver educated graduates. It exists to feed itself -- to obtain funding for itself the next year and to support a gradually expanding set of "administrators" that add little to the process.

Look at the effects of "No Child Left Behind". NCLB pushed test scores above all else. What did we get? A bunch of students that were very good at passing standardized tests. That does not necessarily translate to a better educational outcome. The value in the skill of passing standardized tests plummets rapidly once one joins the workforce.

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