• SoupOfTheDay@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t testing reasonableness. This is testing to see if a student understands that to properly compare fractions the wholes have to start as equivalent.

    Source: I use questions similar to this every year because if I don’t get some real funky diagrams.

    • NightDice@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      But… you can totally compare fractions without the whole being equivalent. You just have to know the size of the wholes. It’s just a poorly phrased question that has more than one correct answer when only one was intended.

      Edit: also, it’s totally testing reasonableness, that’s literally the title of the question. Still poorly phrased though.