It's Poll Week, Apparently

[thefourthvine]

My nine-year-old nephew has to do a ridiculous poll for his math class, and he needs lots of responses. It's one question. Anyone feel like taking it? Please? I would thank you! My sister would thank you! My nephew would also thank you!

(Added bonus humor for anyone who has ever taken a math class: his teacher assigned this question, and also assigned him to determine the mean, mode, and median of answers. If you take it, you'll see why we are all deeply amused by this. Statistics: UR TEACHIN IT RONG.)

ETA: SurveyMonkey broke! The question was as follows:

[Poll #1354750]

Feel free to take it if you haven't already, and thanks again!

Comments

[marici.livejournal.com]

Pre-break his brain! My brother and I have both been disciplined in math classes for asserting that the odds of an event happening at least once over the course of X tries is not equal to the odds of the event happening in one try times the number of tries. Be sure your nephew knows this one well enough to stand his ground and get written up like us.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

So if you roll a dice six times you're NOT guaranteed of getting all six numbers once each? Wow, who'd of thunk it? *grin*

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

*stares at you, worried*

They tried to teach you that? That is...a very bad thing. Yes. My faith in the education system: dwindling (and it was already so slight as to be essentially undetectable).

[shadowspinner.livejournal.com]

Not only was I taught that, I was tested on it for my maths GCSE. Three years ago. (Also four years, and five. My relationship with maths has always been good, my relationship with GCSE maths very bad...) I suspect I may be warped forever. :-(

[marici.livejournal.com]

The advice from my family is teach early, and utterly without regard to curiculae. From my mom, special extra advice: start with your weakest subjects. She never admitted that she got a BA instead of a BS because she was terrified of calculus until we were both graduating high school with 2 years of calc college credit. She just told us math was easy, and we were pretty gullible. >_>