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GS Chandy

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From: Hyderabad, Mumbai/Bangalore, India
Registered: 9/29/05

Re: To K-12 teachers here: Another enjoyable post from Dan Meyer
Posted: Jan 21, 2013 3:36 PM

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> I seriously doubt that. Besides, they had a tool with
> which to check their answers.
>
> Bob Hansen
>
See, for instance, Richard Strausz's response http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2430332 /
>
> On Jan 21, 2013, at 11:57 AM, Joe Niederberger
> <niederberger@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > My guess is that if only 18 out of 20 children
> failed to work this problem to a successful
> conclusion, it was not due to not "seeing the trick".
> My guess it it had to do with (lack of) tidy record
> keeping and double checking.