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Re: fourth grade geometry question???
Posted:
Sep 15, 2004 12:31 PM
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On 13 Sep 04 21:54:47 -0400 (EDT), Alexander Bogomolny wrote:
>On 9 Sep 04 22:26:08 -0400 (EDT), karen wrote:
>>On 28 Aug 02 23:22:36 -0400 (EDT), Diane wrote:
>>>Draw a quadrangle that has 2 pairs of equal sides but is NOT a
>>>parallelogram.
>>>Does this seem like 4th grade to anyone? I finally got the answer
>but
>>>we have no book to use as a reference.
>>
>>My daughter just presented this question as well. Only by looking
at
>>the response generated from your question here on the net(from
Walter
>>somebody who appears to be a mathematics statistician ) did I get
it.
>>Now my 9 year old has assured me that she is smarter than me because
>>she actually had an answer that I didn't think was correct until I
>>read Mr. Math professor's answer.
>
>What I do not understand about this remark is that how is it possible
>not to acknowledge an answer when it does solve the problem. The kite
>does have two pairs of equal sides. If that's what your daughter
>brought as an answer then, by inspection, you might have verified
that
>it was correct. Why would not it?
>
>Alexander Bogomolny
>http://www.cut-the-knot.org
Of course, if you DON'T KNOW what a "parallelogram" IS, you can't
"verify"it!
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