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[Twolanerider]

Just got a call from my niece whom I usually help with her homework.  She read off a match problem neither she nor I can get our heads around:

Critical Thinking:  Explain how to make a ten to find 8 + 6




I've got no freaking idea and I'm not there to see more of the assignment.  This is read off verbatim though.  Any ideas?

[BG]

   This is making my head hurt.......and I usually am pretty good at math.

[harleydave]

10 from 8+6
Take 2 from the 6 leaves 4 add 4 + 8 = 12 subtract 2 from 12 = 10

[Twolanerider]

This is a second grader's assignment and I still don't get it.  Two PhD engineers and an honest to god rocket scientist have also been called.  All banging head on wall...

[110tHunDer]

 
I thought hers was pretty bad, but that's even crazier than my daughter's 5th grade stuff.

[49445CVO]

HMMMM Nope!  Ok..... Nope!  ...... ..... I still can't make sense of it

[mungam]

I think it is that new math.

8+6 = 14 true.

but if you wanted to round up the 8 to a 10, you need to borrow 2 from the 6 which leaves 4.
Now you have
10 + 4 = 14 (is that what they meant?)

Steve

[Keats]

I think it is that new math.

8+6 = 14 true.

but if you wanted to round up the 8 to a 10, you need to borrow 2 from the 6 which leaves 4.
Now you have
10 + 4 = 14 (is that what they meant?)

Steve

Prof Higgins says...by jove, I think he has got it

[Keats]

2nd grade math is all visual.....

to add you build columns of 10 and count the columns for the first number and singles for the second number


http://www.ixl.com/math/practice/grade-2-place-value-models-tens-and-ones

see if you pass this test

[mungam]

2nd grade math is all visual.....

to add you build columns of 10 and count the columns for the first number and singles for the second number


http://www.ixl.com/math/practice/grade-2-place-value-models-tens-and-ones

see if you pass this test

Hooray!
I am as smart as a 2nd grader.......It is all down hill from there.

Time spent 1 min 27 sec 
SmartScore 100 
Problems correct 14/14 

[Ultrablue]

I would have to disagree.  To make ten from 14 you get 14 toothpicks and spell out the number ten.  3 sticks for the "T", 5 sticks for the "E" and six for the "N".  Thus fourteen makes ten.

[Hugh Janis]

I was fine with math til they added the damn alphabet. Grrrr. Now math can take care of it's OWN problems!

[Gettinold]

I think it is that new math.

8+6 = 14 true.

but if you wanted to round up the 8 to a 10, you need to borrow 2 from the 6 which leaves 4.
Now you have
10 + 4 = 14 (is that what they meant?)

Steve

Final answer ?

[Twolanerider]

I don't think any of us are right relative to what the assignment was looking for.  There was a written explanation that came home the next day.  From the text.  As the teacher didn't like the problem either and didn't grade it. 

After having listened to the written explanation I know two things.  I still don't completely understand the solution.  Still can't explain it.  And nothing read above here matches the text's explanation. 

Ok, that's three things.  But when a guy can't do second grade math what do you expect !

[J B]

I think Steve's got it. "Make a ten" probably means they're teaching them to do everything in terms of tens.
"Critical thinking" must mean *figure out how to solve the problem in a roundabout way instead of just solving the problem.* Hmmm... has my dealer been sending their mechanics to this school?!