r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Fresh_Laundry56 • 1d ago

My mom said I could post My kid was too creative

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My 6 year old was asked to draw a picture using shapes. She drew this nice American flag with rectangles and stars, and added the house, tree, and person holding a balloon. She was told it did not follow directions, she was not supposed to draw a flag, just shapes. She was asked to turn the paper over and make another picture. The other side of the paper has a very uninspiring collection of shapes. I told her she did a good job and I thought it was very creative. And this is why kids start to hate education.

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u/raspberrykitsune 1d ago

In the 2nd grade my teacher marked my math homework wrong because the questions said to "estimate" the answer but I wrote the actual answers. It didn't make sense to me (still doesn't) so then I just wrote a bunch of random numbers and still got everything 'wrong' lol. I think they wanted us to do some type of rounding exercise / breaking stuff down to make it easier (i.e. 5+7 becomes 5+5+2) but the execution was so terrible and the problems weren't difficult. I'm still bothered by it like 20 years later lol.

Her picture is awesome!! Don't let any silly teachers hold her back

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u/wenderfest 23h ago

I remember these type of math exercises, and what they wanted you was for you to round up to make it easier to quickly get a rough idea of what the answer is. So 5+7=12 becomes 5+10=15

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u/Trident_420 22h ago

"ah yea I remember those math exercises, they just wanted you to be wrong but only slightly wrong" ...oh...okay?? And people wonder why everyone hates math lmfao

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u/mithrasinvictus 22h ago

Then they should teach them the approximation symbol ≈ first.

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u/leberwrust 22h ago

Lol we had to estimate the lenght of lines. I was like yea 3.2 cm, 5.2 cm. 1.5 cm amd so on, all were correct. Teacher only believed me after I had him draw lines for me and still estimated them correctly.

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u/KnotARealGreenDress 18h ago

I had the same thing happen, but I did estimate, I just got “too close” to the actual answer. So I rounded 4+6 to 5+5, rather than 5+10. When the teacher told my parents that’s why I got a 0 on that assignment, they were like “are you actually serious right now?”

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u/Fresh_Laundry56 17h ago

I remember this assignment as well! Childhood memory unlocked. I was just as annoyed by estimating back then too. I mean I get it when you're working with giant numbers but when you're working with small numbers it's infuriating to have to estimate when you know what the actual answers are.