Comment Re:How hard can that possibly be? (Score 1) 663
did you even look at the test question? theres a link in the summary. on the left you have five pennies, and on the right you have a teacup marked with the number six. the teacup is apparently full of liquid. tea, perhaps? you know that this is a puzzle, and you need to decipher it for some clue. has the riddler been here? where's batman!
Apparently I looked more closely than you did. Five pennies yes, and a cup (looks more like a measuring cup to me) with "6" on it. Beneath the pennies are the words "part I know" and under the cup is the word "whole".
It was obvious to me, and my daughter that the cup contains/represents the "whole" amount which is six but what I can see is five pennies. What we are being asked for is what is missing? What is missing from 5 to make 6? Really not *that* hard.
This is probably even more obvious to a child which has been trained using these specific terms.
i'm not gonna argue about the importance of solving word problems as a skill. all of life is word problems!
I'm not talking about word problems. In fact I'd argue that all of life is the opposite of word problems. Life is filled with data you need to figure out how to structure it into something you can manipulate.