I’m not being facetious here. I’m genuinely not sure what I should advise her the correct answer should be.
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This was my daughter’s (7) maths homework on Monday. Can someone help me out with the answer?pic.twitter.com/89wcUc8dlr
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For context this was, as far as I am aware, my daughter’s first introduction to angles.
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I will deliberately refrain from giving by thoughts on this until later because I don't want to bias the debate.
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Here’s a thread on my thoughts about the answer:https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1364629701927579651 …
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I also want to make it clear I am in no way vilifying my daughter’s teacher here. He is a legend and has been working his socks off during the pandemic as, I have no doubt, have all teachers.
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I went on the BBC
@bbcpointswest to talk about the problem earlier tonight. You can see the clips in the short thread below. Hopefully I conveyed the nuance of the problem/answers.https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1365049468664561664 …
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Dear Lord, grant me the certainty and confidence of the posters in the Daily Mail comments sections.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9299823/Maths-lecturer-leaves-people-baffled-daughters-homework.html#comments …
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Ok, my basic maths (you've no idea) says no, there are no right angles as there are no square corners. Now put me out of my misery?
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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My gut says false, because the circle bit has curved lines, pure maths probably says true because the very first point in those lines would be a right angle, I’m looking forward to finding out.
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I’m increasingly thinking it’s true because you have to draw tangent lines to work it out.
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