I was helping my 9-year-old daughter do math tonight. Here is one of her word problems; the purpose of these problems isn’t to find a solution, but to explain why the logic is correct or incorrect:
Dan tells Matt, “If you add something to anything, you get more of it.” “Ok,” Matt says, “I’m digging a hole in the dirt. Add some more dirt and let’s see if we get a bigger hole.”
I had to laugh out loud at this one. Kind of The Zen of Math.