Pretty sure I know what the point of the question was, but person writing it botched it, & neither student nor teacher nor tweeps got it.
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Point is just: if you have 5 apples, and 8 apples, and you need 10 apples, do you have enough apples? Yes. But so badly expressed.
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@St_Rev "Does 8+5 satisfy 'has ten?' Yes" But trying to construct a meaning of 'has' that reads 'is' seems unintuitive, maybe unproductive. -
@blue_traveler "If you add 8 and 5, do you have *at least* 10?" "Yes, you have 10, and 3 left over." That's plain English. -
@St_Rev I wonder why there's an attempt at new nomenclature, other than it's "new math" again. Or do you think it's just a fuddled prompt? -
@blue_traveler New Math was a specific movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math -
@St_Rev I'm superficially familiar with it, based on a maths prof showing me a YouTube comedy video about it
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