Father amazed by simple math problem that is intended for his 10-year-old son-Dus can you solve it?

A father was left by a math problem of the 5th grade given to his son when he turned to the internet for help in solving the deceptively complicated question.

Write about RedditThe parent – from the US – noted that he must ‘miss something in how it is formulated’ in addition to a photo of the comparison intended for a 10 -year -old.

However, users of social media also kept scratching their heads, where some said that there must be ‘a typo or wrong print’ that made the problem inevitable.

According to the photo posted on Reddit, it states: ‘Kayla has 18 bottles of bubbles. She wants to give two bottles to each of her six friends. How many bottles did she have left?

“What expression solves the problem? A) (18 Divide 2) Divide 6, B) (18 Divide 2) + 6, c) (18 x 2) – 6 or d) (18 x 2) + 6. ‘

The man’s caption was: ‘[5th Grade Math] Curious how this mathematics question can be solved that my son has. This specific question was from the other day in my son’s mathematics homework.

‘They rated the answers in class today and apparently the answer A. was curious how they came to this answer?

‘None of the options seemed good because I expected it was 18 – (6 × 2). Where two bottles are handed out to each friend. Six friends in total, which means that 12 bottles are issued, so there are six bottles left.

“I have to miss something in how it is formulated, but I can’t figure it out for my life.”

While some people rushed to the commentary section to try to work out the answer, most of them found the question inaccurate.

One person said: “Your answer seems to be correct, none of these options are correct …”

Another added: ‘I think it is more likely that a typo or wrong print is. As if they exchanged the deduction and multiplication marks and moved the brackets at answer choice C, then: (18 x 2) – 6 18 – (2 x 6) could be ”

Someone else agreed: “Can be a printing error, but apparently rated by the teacher, who confirmed a …. terribly.”

A fourth added: ‘You are right, the teacher is wrong. If you simplify A, you get 1.5 that makes no sense in the context of the problem. ‘

Another simply said: “It looks like A is also wrong for me …”

Others tried to understand where the teacher received an answer A and they were just as blunt as the father.

One person said: ‘I really turned my brain here to understand that a being is correct, but here it goes: if you divide 18 bottles by 2, you get 9 bottles in two separate piles.

‘Now give a bottle of each pile to all 6 friends. The result would be 3 bottles left in two separate posts, or 6 remaining bottles in total. Gymnastics. ‘

Another said: “A, if they are supposed to use Euclidic divisions (18/2 = she has 9 batches of 2, 9/6 => 1 and the rest is 3) ” ‘

Someone else wrote: ‘With the help of poor logic, this is the only way I can get one of the answer choices (and it is a) – I am not saying that it is correct, only wanted to explain their (wrong) logic:

‘She splits the 18 bottles into sets of 2, which is 18/22. Then she splits those sets of 2 under her 6 friends.

“That is why you divide by 6 next. You leave that with A. but as everyone said here, you and your son are right. The worksheet is wrong. ‘

Later the father came back with an update after he spoke with his son’s 5th teacher.

He wrote: ‘Thanks everyone! It seems that the worksheet is indeed wrong. I will contact the teacher and let them know. Appreciate the feedback!

‘Edit: I did spoke to the teacher and they crossed the classroom together. The teacher said that none of the answers was correct and what my son came up with was correct. ‘

It comes after one Mother was stunned by a very ‘obscure’ question about the mathematics homework of her six -year -old.

The confused parent called herself the ‘worst homework helper ever’ after she could not solve her child’s question because she could not figure out what the vague question even asked.

The activity states that Jake has nine rules and two points before he asks the student to “show one exchange that he could make.”

Regarding the internet, the confused mother Reddit requested help and online frameworks brought the real answer.

“I’m not sure what this question even asks. He says that the lines are worth 10 and that the points are worth one, “she explained.

‘So this amounts to 92, but what should he do with that information?

“Do they ask you to exchange one line for 10 blocks or something?”

The answer was not clear to many who were just as stunned as the mother.

“I feel that these questions are less about mathematics and more about getting your child to talk about what they are doing in the classroom,” a user replied.

‘Good question. This is similar to the stuff that my first class also brings home. Some of these questions are so unclear! “Another wrote.

But others were quick to crack the code, explaining the question is probably to ask for a different amount of rules and dots to make 92.

“Your son is right about the symbols.

“They show that he has 92 (nine dozens of sticks and two). I am not sure what they mean by making an exchange, and I am a primary school teacher (4th grade), “someone answered.

“I think they are planning to show 92 by having eight lines of ten and 12 or something like that.”

‘My gamble is yes, they are looking for you to draw an extra ten dots and a rule less. So it would be 8 lines and 12 dots, “another person agreed.

‘When I was in school, we had small plastic squares and lines for learning units. They probably represent the same, a third added.

“I thought so. However, unless there is something in the problem that shows that a line is a dozens of rod, it is simply not very intuitive to teach or learn, “another has been pointed out.