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Exactly! The answer the kid gave is the “correct” one because it shows a proper reasoning about fractions. While the teachers logic assumes that fractions are some kind of absolute value of measure???

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That’s what annoys me with marking that as wrong. The kid clearly understood the problem.

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Teacher doesn’t know there’s more than one size of pizza I guess.

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The teacher’s from another timeline where the “pizza” made it into SI as the standard unit of food area.

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