Adults are (wrongly) insisting that they know the correct answer to this maths problem.
You left school a while ago – thank Christ – and you haven't had to think about Venn Diagrams, fractions or algebra ever since. Until today, that is...
Twitter user Louise Bloxham has confounded many people online by sharing an image of an actual Year 2 maths paper which seems to have set the internet on fire.
Seems easy at first.
It isn't.
https://twitter.com/LouiseBloxham/status/729027334284709893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
What do you think the answer is?
Simple. 65, right?
https://twitter.com/LouiseBloxham/status/729027741069262853
WHAT?!
https://twitter.com/DuckworthRobyn/status/729211384668499968
https://twitter.com/enhughesiasm/status/729264808638484481
Apparently, it's 46.
https://twitter.com/LouiseBloxham/status/729226401564532736
"How?" we hear you shouting at your laptop...
Thing is – it’s a red herring; the second line about the 19 people is irrelevant. Take away 17 from 63 - that's what the question is asking.
https://twitter.com/LouiseBloxham/status/729241342031892480
IS IT THOUGH?!
https://twitter.com/LouiseBloxham/status/729239551370268672
Still, a brutally cruel trick to play on students whose careers might one day depend on it.
Maybe we need to reform education. Something needs to happen, because this problem could tear the nation apart.
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