Second grade math homework...

[Spiky Bugger]

My 7-year-old friend's homework question:
Explain why 143 is bigger than 134.

Her answer:
That's just how it is.


1--she's right
2--she won't get credit for it.
3--life isn't fair.

 

[DianaCox]

HOW? What kind of question is that with respect to math??

The hundreds place is the same, the tens place is a higher number, thus 143 is bigger than 134. I have a STEM PhD and I don't know what answer the teacher expects.

 

[southernlady]

HOW? What kind of question is that with respect to math??

The hundreds place is the same, the tens place is a higher number, thus 143 is bigger than 134. I have a STEM PhD and I don't know what answer the teacher expects.

Probably the life isn't fair answer.

 

[JackieOnLine]

well? DID she get credit? what is the answer?!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

well? DID she get credit? what is the answer?!

She "forgot" her homework packet at school. Time will tell.

Sometimes...that child is so dippy we can't figure if she found a rope or lost a horse...

 

[JackieOnLine]

that's funny - did you make that up or is that a folksy saying on Tuvalu?

 

[Spiky Bugger]

that's funny - did you make that up or is that a folksy saying on Tuvalu?

I quote t-shirt humor...and act like I made it up.

Other favorites:
Keep talking. I'm diagnosing you.

And

I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you.