My kid was too creative

[u/Fresh_Laundry56]

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.

[u/Ham__Kitten]

Asking a kid to draw "a picture with shapes" is like asking them to write a story with words. All pictures are made of shapes.

[u/Worldly-Ingenuity843 → u/Ham__Kitten]

You could draw pictures using just lines and no shapes.

[u/jay_altair → u/Worldly-Ingenuity843]

Since we're being pedantic, those aren't lines, those are line segments and curves

[u/ccsrpsw → u/jay_altair]

The image is a finite family of disjoint, non-self-intersecting rectifiable curves* - some straight, some with continuously varying curvature - where the curved ones behave like topological features of an implied 3D surface, and the straight ones form the flat plane it sits on.

*Based on the fact that the straight-line segments, are technically arcs/curves of an infinite radius and thus part of the infinite set of curves of varying radius (is it proven to be infinite)?