The teacher is probably looking for something like “Because 40-20 is positive”.
“Because 20 - 40 is negative.”
“Because ln(20/40) is negative.”
So we’re ignoring “I a’m”?
How do you know I a’m is incorrect?
Because I’am smart!
How can we with that big red circle around it.
If a smart person said it, maybe that’s how it’s supposed to be spelled. What are your credentials to dispute it?
He i’s smart
Low-tech typo.
I’m moderately impressed that they used punctuation at all, I’ll let it slide
God I hated questions like this in school. There’s always something specific the teacher is looking for, but nothing to point you towards it.
I suppose “by definition” would probably have been counted as wrong
I’m thinking maybe “Because if you subtract 40 from my number you get a negative number,” but I could be either over- or under-thinking it.
Usually the pointer is the blahblah the teacher was droning while you were fantasizing about the attractive classmate sitting directly in front of you
Because that’s how numbers work, duh.
Arbitrary glyphs can mean whatever we decide they mean. One day 8 could mean what we commonly consider to be 2 today - we just have to choose for it to be so.
Reality by agreement.
What’s the expected answer? “Because 2 is less than 4”? Could be “because 20 + 20 = 40” but that seems to be too advanced for these types of tests.
Probably a number line? Draw a line to show it’s only 2 jumps to 20 but 4 equally spaced jumps to 40.
As a teacher that’s what I would’ve done at least. Number lines are quite effective at helping kids visualize numbers.
This response doesn’t seem to indicate this particular teacher has adequately explained what the expected answer is though.
Sounds reasonable, but the task should be something like “Draw a graph and show why 20 is smaller than 40” or something
Eh, I don’t necessarily agree, you’re testing a child’s ability to come up with a solution moreso than their ability to follow instructions. Other answers are possible, and maybe a student prefers their own way. But one way of doing it, like a number line, should be so ingrained in all students that anyone knows at least that one way of doing it, imo.
The question is intended to create an existential crisis and gaslight the pupils. How can anyone truly know anything?
Seriously this question can only be properly answered with Russel & Whitehead
“I asked ChatGPT, and it said so.”
Lazy quiz questions were the bane of my education.
This has to be the most useless red circle I’ve ever seen.
“Because I paid attention to my teacher.”
That should do it.
I was soooo expecting a picture of Trump under that post title.
