over 50 thousand redditors unable to comprehend that 10 fits the description "about 12" whereas 4, 6 and 20 do not.
Posted Jul 6, 2022, 9:13 AM UTC
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Agreed. 6 is "about 10" to the nearest 10, and that wouldn't provide the birds with "about 4" worms each. The problem is that maths is being taught by non-maths experts to young children and they don't fully understand the concepts they're trying to teach. The question is set up to round twice which doesn't work.
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How many worms does bla bla bla.... if Jared wants to take care of birds, he should learn some math and english first before asking dumb wrongly phrased questions
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"should I be able to understand the meaning of the word "about"? No! It's the question that is bad at English!"
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Agreed
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According to you logic the answers should include an about as well. The question ask for an estimated number but the answers indicate a definitive one. This question is stupid and wrong no matter how you twist and turn it my dude.
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That's... just not how the word about works... you don't have to say it twice about the same number...
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You have to imply that the answer is an estimated number as well. You can not answer with an definitive number on the question to an estimate ones. Either the answer include the hint to estimation as well or they give a range. Anything else is just illogical.
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Are you my mother?
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Yes “about 10” fits but Satan almighty that’s a stupid way to phrases a Question
No, they'll have plenty of questions testing their accurate mental maths. These questions are to prevent them having a mental breakdown when numbers irl don't conform exactly to convenient answers. Honestly, people complain about maths being weird and inflexible, but you introduce the concept that hey, perhaps birds don't have to eat an exact integer number of worms for you to work with the problem, and Reddit collectively shits its pants.