{"id":128245,"date":"2025-05-24T14:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T14:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/128245\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T14:45:22","slug":"us-dad-stumped-by-sons-5th-grade-math-quiz-internet-reacts-to-confusing-homework-trending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/128245\/","title":{"rendered":"US dad stumped by son’s 5th grade math quiz, internet reacts to confusing homework | Trending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A US<\/a> dad took to Reddit after getting stumped by his fifth grader\u2019s math homework, and it wasn\u2019t just him. The question, involving bottles and basic arithmetic, left many scratching their heads.<\/p>\n

\"A A dad shared this worksheet his son received in his class. (Reddit\/zebdor44) <\/p>\n

\u201cThis particular question was in my son’s math homework from the other day. They reviewed the answers in class today and apparently the answer was A,\u201d the dad wrote on Reddit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He continued that he was curious to know how that was the solution to the problem and added that his son got an answer that was not listed in the worksheet. \u201cI must be missing something in how it’s worded but I can’t for the life of me figure it out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

What does the quiz say?<\/p>\n

\u201cKayla has 18 bottles of bubbles. She wants to give 2 bottles to each of her 6 friends. How many bottles will she have left over? Which expression solves the problem?\u201d read the quiz with four options.<\/p>\n

Take a look at the post here: How did social media react?<\/p>\n

While some announced that they, too, thought the answers were wrong, a few tried to solve the math quiz.<\/p>\n

Agreeing with the dad, an individual posted, \u201cYour answer seems to be correct, none of those options are correct.\u201d Another added, \u201cI feel terrible that these kids have to learn anything like this. How can the child be expected to learn when even a multiple choice question doesn’t contain the correct answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

A third joined, \u201cUsing bad logic, this is the only way I can get any of the answer choices (and it is A) – I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s correct, only wanted to explain their (wrong) logic: She\u2019s splitting the 18 bottles into sets of 2, that\u2019s 18 \/2. Then, she\u2019s splitting those sets of 2 among her 6 friends. That\u2019s why you divide by 6 next. That leaves you with A. But as everyone here has said, you and your son are correct. The worksheet is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

A fourth wrote, \u201cReally twisting my brain here to make sense of A being correct, but here goes: if you divide 18 bottles by 2 you get 9 bottles in two separate piles. Now give one bottle from each pile to all 6 friends. The result would be 3 bottles leftover in two separate piles, or 6 leftover bottles total. Gymnastics.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is the correct answer?<\/p>\n

In a follow-up comment, the dad responded, \u201cThanks, everyone! It does seem the worksheet is indeed wrong. I’ll reach out to the teacher and let them know. I appreciate the feedback! EDIT: I did talk with the teacher, and they went over it in class together. The teacher mentioned none of the answers were right (sic), and what my son came up with was correct.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A US dad took to Reddit after getting stumped by his fifth grader\u2019s math homework, and it wasn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[56572,3082,56573,2511,53,16,15,56571,416],"class_list":{"0":"post-128245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-5th-grade","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-math-quiz","11":"tag-reddit","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-us-dad","16":"tag-viral"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114563352314968190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}