Poll of the Day > This Mississippi Mom said this 3rd Grade MATH Question is UNFAIR!! Is it???

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40 y/o Mom, Dusty Sappington (bizarre name), from Mississippi showed her daughter's 3rd grade math homework that has left the internet INSANE as NO ONE has been able to answer it..

She shared a picture of her 8 y/o daughter's Izzy's math homework and circled the questionable question..

Izzy answered it with a questino mark and now Dusty is outraged as she said this question is UNFAIR for a 3rd grader and asked reddit for help stating "If someone can answer this correctly, my child will be done with her homework!"

But many users have not been able to accurately answer the question with some insisting it can't be answered..

The question has gone viral with many people giving their opinion..and one cocky user even said "Come on guys, this is basic 3rd grade stuff"

Dusty said her daughter has dyslexia and attends a private school that offers traditional classes but specializes in helping students with learning disabilities...

She hasn't found the answer yet but hopes to see the graded paper soon...

She's unsure if it was printed in error or if it's to test her knowledge of something else..

Do you think this question can be answered? let's see what people think

The insane question -

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/08/01/461E577800000578-5060429-image-a-44_1510103333302.jpg

Dusty - Mom

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/08/04/461F32F500000578-5060429-image-m-8_1510114057165.jpg

Reddit -

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/08/01/461E6DCB00000578-5060429-image-a-45_1510103343992.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/08/01/461E6DC700000578-5060429-image-a-46_1510103351693.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/08/01/461E6DCF00000578-5060429-image-a-47_1510103363907.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/08/01/461E6DD300000578-5060429-image-a-51_1510103407547.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/08/01/461E6DD700000578-5060429-image-a-48_1510103369369.jpg
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<15
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She has a green number of marbles because she's lost her marbles
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old_school227 posted...

<15

This is a very fair question when the whole class is learning 'greater than less than'.
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I think the kinds of people who get outraged by these sorts of things are channeling their inner "bottom of the class children" pasts.
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Yellow posted...

old_school227 posted...

<15

This is a very fair question when the whole class is learning 'greater than less than'.

That's what I was going to say but there's nothing else on that page to suggest they're learning greater than/less than. Looks like basic addition and subtraction within word problems to me.

Then again, I'm fucking terrible at math.
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<15 or 15-X.
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I remember those kinds of questions in either like third or fourth grade. It was to test that you could recognize when you weren't given enough information to solve the problem.

In other words, "not enough information" is the answer.
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Yeah I think I remember having questions like this in elementary school. It's fair game as long as the teacher explains that there are several potentially correct answers, or that there isn't a single "correct" answer.
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Yeah. We use to have question where there wasn't enough info. Which would be the answer. Or, like some of the others said, if they were learning/already knew greater than/less than. It would be hard to say from this picture, though.
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Red_Frog posted...

False, I had 7 before I bought a faulty boat and had an accident
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the answer is

0<X<15.
x = number of marbles
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acutally it's probably

7<x<14

if she lost 1 it's less than some, and if she lost 8 that is majority
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Why don't we just ask Janell how many she has? Like does she have privacy not to publicise her issues to the whole world?
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Is doing the math out for the other problems really necessary?

Also the kid should get an "F" for penmanship.

Uh. <15. Duh.
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JSo where does loosing all of something not equal zero??

O some...... No it cannot be answered
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I would say <15, but the answer "most" or "some" would still be sufficient.
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I'm more concerned that the two questions above that one don't teach kids about the harsh reality of sales tax.

She could have negative marbles. It doesn't state she only lost her own. She could have lost some of someone else's marbles and therefore owed marbles to other people.
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The question can be answered, the real question is if they actually have a set of 'correct' answers that they will mark the kids down for giving anything different to such a poorly worded and vague question.
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I hate these kinds of problems. Vague and/or heavily theoretical math problems were a big reason I never did well in my math classes all the way up to Calculus. I much preferred the more practical applied math problems in my engineering courses.