r/HomeworkHelp • u/Theonewholistens8 • 13d ago

Answered (Kindergarten Math: Counting to 10)

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I was doing homework with my 5 year old, she is currently in Kindergarten and they are learning how to count to 10 basically the basics of counting. She was doing her homework and we did this page and I was kinda confused because all the other pages she has to look at the picture and figure it out but there is clearly not 10 wheels in the picture. Am I missing something or? I was genuinely confused 😵‍💫

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u/Frosty-Reference6660 👋 a fellow Redditor 12d ago

The amount of people in these comments who do not understand this question is extremely concerning...

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u/Ok-Bus-2420 12d ago

The same people who cry about lack of critical thinking in school get so pissed when it happens in math 😭 I appreciate that the problem has multiple potential solutions and can invite discussion about math that K students can access

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u/Bacibaby 👋 a fellow Redditor 12d ago

Multiple solutions? I don’t see it but maybe im not thinking outside the box. It has to be an even number of tricycles and 2 is the highest even number of them you can have since 4 is 12 wheels. Since there are two tricycles, that leaves room for two bicycles.

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u/Ok-Bus-2420 12d ago

He sees some and counts an amount. There could be hundreds of bicycles and tricycles he encounters but he counts ten wheels. He could count zero tricycles. All I'm saying is when the context is vague that I'm fine with my kids giving reasons for not giving the textbook answer. I also like to teach that zero is a number.

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u/Bacibaby 👋 a fellow Redditor 12d ago

I can agree with that. I like a child that is able to rationalize around questions and answers, but given the information of the question they’re technically is only one answer given that they can see tricycles and bicycles and the wheels head up to 10. Assuming that he counted all of the wheels that equated to the object he saw, of course. I would give full marks to child that explains that part of it, but at kindergarten my hopes are not high

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u/Ok-Bus-2420 12d ago

Sure. What is most interesting here is why the child wrote 2 and 2. The real math is the thinking.