Abra brought this assigment home from school today. While she's good at math, I'm pretty sure some of these problems can't be done without the help of trigonometry. And in second grade, she hasn't had that yet.
(For example, the answer to #5 is 33.8167...)
8 comments:
Clearly one should do these the way Joel Primack extracts data from the literature: blow it up, project it against the wall, and use a ruler.
I think we have failed as parents by not introducing trigonometry yet. Summer project: trigonometry and Faulkner novels. WE CAN'T LET THE CHILDREN FALL BEHIND!!!!
That's unbelievable. It's clearly from a teacher who hates math and trying to instill the same feeling into his/her students...
Stacy: harsh. (But true!)
nonsense, clearly you just need some basic geometry, a bit of algebra and pythagoras' theorem
trig will do, but is a bit of an overkill
@steinn: the first draft of this post said "or square roots", but i deleted it for simplicity, figuring none of my readers would be *that* pedantic. clearly i was wrong....
Be sure to post the teacher's answers for those of us
who aren't quite as smart as Abra.
Wow! Well, at least I know it's know it's not just me. Some of Nico's second grade bonus problems have stumped me. They reminded of the Analytical Reasoning section of the old GRE. I mean, seriously - permutation problems already?
[insert English major joke here]
Follow-up: The actual assignment was to add the numbers together to get the perimeter, and apparently the teacher neglected to notice until after the assignment was distributed that one of the numbers was missing.
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