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"If two sides of a triangular garden are 3 and 4 feet respectively, find the length of the third side." Okay, hand me a tape measure. In a middle school algeb
by jumbled 13y ago
"If two sides of a triangular garden are 3 and 4 feet respectively, find the length of the third side."
Okay, hand me a tape measure.
In a middle school algebra class we had a word problem on a test that had us divide by the number of cards in a deck of cards. I didn't think this was a fair question, because it assumed that everyone knew how many cards were in a deck of cards. I went to the teacher's desk and whispered this concern to her and she said "Come on, even my 5 year old knows how many cards are in a deck of cards."
Not 10 minutes later, another student raised his hand and asked how many cards were in a deck of cards.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> In a middle school algebra class we had a word problem on a test that had us divide by the number of cards in a deck of cards. I didn't think this was a fair question, because it assumed that everyone knew how many cards were in a deck of cards. I went to the teacher's desk and whispered this concern to her and she said "Come on, even my 5 year old knows how many cards are in a deck of cards." Just for reasonably-common playing card decks, I can think of at least three possibilities -- 48 (standard pinochle deck), 52 (poker deck w/o jokers), and 54 (poker deck w/jokers). And in middle school -- since there was a lot of card playing in my house -- I probably would have been aware of all three.