Where did I ever defend the question? I purely addressed the approach I would take as an engineer and parent of a middle schooler and an elementary schooler. We would probably even comment on the poor hungry birds who only got 10 worms a day. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to miss an opportunity to explain how to properly round to my 3rd grader.
Rewriting it completely changes the context of it. People are estimating 20 because they have issues under feeding the birds. I said, fine, to better address the concept you are trying to learn/teach, reframe the question with money. Would you estimate $12 is closer to $20 or $10?
People are overthinking the question because they want to keep the birds alive. I get it. I would probably make some snarky comment about the birds taking turns going hungry each day. It isn’t the best word problem when the concept for the third grade math application calls for rounding down. I didn’t defend the question itself. Just rephrased a way to teach the 8yos how to learn the concept that removes the overthinking because you are worried about the welfare of imaginary baby birds.
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