Re:Do you understand this first-grade child's homework?
by zephjc on Friday November 20, 2009 @02:19AM
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We can guess they want different groups of numbers that lead to the same sum (e.g. 7+4=12; 10+2=12) but this lesson clearly has context outside of the paper itself - that is, the teacher explained what to do, and these are exercises based around that. Without that context, we're just guessing what the goal is.
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Re:Do you understand this first-grade child's homework?
by RevRal on Friday November 20, 2009 @02:28AM
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That's a good point, but that doesn't make this assignment any less poorly crafted. It is common for parents to help their children with homework, and I would expect that to be taken into consideration when creating a worksheet that is less straight forward.
Even if the child knew what they were supposed to do, they'd have the explain the assignment to the parent... which they might explain incorrectly. Just another level of confusion.
Re:Do you understand this first-grade child's homework?
by bartl on Friday November 20, 2009 @04:02AM
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On similar homework from my kids, there is always a presolved similar problem at the top of the page.
I can guess the intent of the exercise, but it would have been a lot easier if there had been a solved example.