Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Jamal's Uncle

This moment brought to you by the profession of teaching: 

My 6th graders were working on a math test yesterday, when one of them raised their hand and I went over to answer his question.  This is the approximate question he was working on:

Jamal's Uncle drives a minivan.  What would be the best estimate of the length of his minivan?

The question was multiple choice and the answers were all 5 with different units- mm, m, km, in, etc.

Student's question: "Miss Clare, I can't answer this question. I don't even know Jamal's Uncle!"

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