{"id":70,"date":"2004-11-15T20:56:12","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T04:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2004-11-15T20:56:12","modified_gmt":"2004-11-16T04:56:12","slug":"seen-in-my-daughters-math-textbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2004\/11\/15\/seen-in-my-daughters-math-textbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Seen in My Daughter&#039;s Math Textbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was helping my 9-year-old daughter do math tonight.  Here is one of her word problems; the purpose of these problems isn&#8217;t to find a solution, but to explain why the logic is correct or incorrect:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dan tells Matt, &#8220;If you add something to anything, you get more of it.&#8221;  &#8220;Ok,&#8221; Matt says, &#8220;I&#8217;m digging a hole in the dirt.  Add some more dirt and let&#8217;s see if we get a bigger hole.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had to laugh out loud at this one.  Kind of The Zen of Math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was helping my 9-year-old daughter do math tonight. Here is one of her word problems; the purpose of these problems isn&#8217;t to find a solution, but to explain why the logic is correct or incorrect: Dan tells Matt, &#8220;If you add something to anything, you get more of it.&#8221; &#8220;Ok,&#8221; Matt says, &#8220;I&#8217;m digging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-18","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}