Anyone smarter than me help with this maths question?

Thekwango · 5 Oct 2022 at 22:36

Where the **** has the op gone……his silence on this matter better be the result of police incarceration following his falcon punching the teacher. I just hope he got the answer out of him first.

Mrwong · 5 Oct 2022 at 23:07

times the whole equation by a common denominator.

Skynet5 · 5 Oct 2022 at 23:17

We had a similar issue in English homework for yr6.

Told my lad to say no options make sense. He wasn't brave enough to do that. He got no marks, and no explanation.

I like to think it is a test to see which pupils are prepared to question that the paper might be wrong. It clearly takes some courage to challenge, something that my son wasn't willing to do.

jpaul · 5 Oct 2022 at 23:45

Put brackets in these sums, if and only if necessary, to make them correct

from the instructions, this isn't a semantics/English test ? - if a sum can't be made correct , do nothing ?

Philtor · 5 Oct 2022 at 23:57

Exactly! Some mathematician will know the answer so I wouldn’t stress, especially at age 11 with that question

do nothing is the right answer.

dowie · 6 Oct 2022 at 00:58

jpaul said:
from the instructions, this isn't a semantics/English test ? - if a sum can't be made correct , do nothing ?

Doubt it, more likely some are already correct.

unwashed potato! · 6 Oct 2022 at 01:18

Subscribing to get the answer from the op. Op will surely deliver

Edit I give up

VincentHanna · 6 Oct 2022 at 07:16

lnoton said:
We had a similar issue in English homework for yr6.

Told my lad to say no options make sense. He wasn't brave enough to do that. He got no marks, and no explanation.

I like to think it is a test to see which pupils are prepared to question that the paper might be wrong. It clearly takes some courage to challenge, something that my son wasn't willing to do.

No, that's not how schools/teaching work.

wolfie138 · 6 Oct 2022 at 08:57

Cadder said:
Are you sticking with that?

lol no, i went to edit, played around w/ the brackets and gave up in disgust, thought i'd wiped the post but obviously not. maths rage quit :-D

sigma · 6 Oct 2022 at 09:05

(6(-5))-((4(-3))= (.)(.)

Hawk Tuah · 6 Oct 2022 at 09:33

He's got the maths lesson where he's supposed to submit that homework today, so will find out later.

Hawk Tuah · 6 Oct 2022 at 09:35

Higher Than Average said:
Today at 01:18 Subscribing to get the answer from the op. Op will surely deliver
Last edited: Today at 01:32 Edit I give up

I'm not going to make any comment about your patience - but expectations for an immediate answer at those hours? :cry:

dowie · 6 Oct 2022 at 10:38

Bug One said:
He's got the maths lesson where he's supposed to submit that homework today, so will find out later.

Was it an exercise sheet, textbook, photocopy/print out of some questions written by the teacher or some questions copied down (by your son) off the board?

Some context might help - even better just take a photo of the exercise sheet or whatever and post it as you've had some people spend time trying to solve it when it's nonsense, others trying to second guess whether it's a trick question etc.

Hawk Tuah · 6 Oct 2022 at 10:54

dowie said:
Was it an exercise sheet, textbook, photocopy/print out of some questions written by the teacher or some questions copied down (by your son) off the board?

Some context might help - even better just take a photo of the exercise sheet or whatever and post it as you've had some people spend time trying to solve it when it's nonsense, others trying to second guess whether it's a trick question etc.

You've already asked this once, despite this already having been provided :confused:

Anyone smarter than me help with this maths question?

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dowie · 6 Oct 2022 at 11:01

Bug One said:
You've already asked this once, despite this already having been provided

Ah didn't see the photo - so is that an exercise sheet the teacher has created & given out or is it a textbook/or some learning materials provided by a publisher?

Hawk Tuah · 6 Oct 2022 at 11:10

No idea. It's been stuck in his exercise book - so I'm guessing they were handed out slips and made use of a prit stick. No information about the origins of the exercise is available.

jsmoke · 6 Oct 2022 at 11:30

Do we have a response from the school yet?

Surveyor · 6 Oct 2022 at 11:45

jsmoke said:
Do we have a response from the school yet?

Posted this morning:

Bug One said:
He's got the maths lesson where he's supposed to submit that homework today, so will find out later.

unwashed potato! · 6 Oct 2022 at 11:46

Bug One said:
I'm not going to make any comment about your patience - but expectations for an immediate answer at those hours?

ah my "i give up" was a section where i was writing my attempts to answer it, and then realising it was all wrong, i edited that out.

Sinbad2000 · 6 Oct 2022 at 11:47

sigma said:
(6(-5))-((4(-3))= (.)(.)

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