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Kid Asks Police For Help With Homework, Gets Wrong Answer

Gergő — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:25:27 +0000

The officer definitely gets an “A” for effort. When 10-year-old Lena Draper was struggling with her math homework, the Ohio fifth grader turned to an unusual source: her local police department. And it worked out well for her ― at first. Draper, of Marion, was stumped by this problem: (8+29)x15 =, so she went to the Facebook page of the Marion Police Department to ask for help.

“I saw [the Marion, Ohio Police Department] on YouTube, when a boy, a first grader, called the police with a problem,” Lena told InsideEdition.com. “I thought they would know math, and they do.”

Draper sent this message: “I’m having trouble with my homework. Could you help me?” She quickly got a response from Lt. B.J. Gruber, who runs the department’s Facebook page. “OK, with what?” he responded. She told him the problem that was confusing her.

“Do the numbers in the parenthesis first so in essence, it would be 37 x 15,” Gruber responded, according to the Marion Star.

Lena’s mother, Molly Draper, posted the interaction on her Facebook page. Lena then asked Officer Gruber for help on solving (90+27) + (29+15) x 2. “Which one would I do first?” she asked. Gruber told her:

“Take the answer from the first parenthesis plus the answer from the second parenthesis and multiply that answer times two. Work left to right doing the work inside the parenthesis first.”

His heart was in the right place, but not the order in which to do the equation. As a result, she got the question wrong, according to Columbus TV station WBNS.

One Facebook user attempted to school the officer saying, “Order of operations… PEMDAS! (Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication & Division, Addition and Subtraction). For future reference.”

Gruber told the station he hopes people will give him an “A” for effort.

“Hoping it is truly the thought that counts since apparently, I cannot!” he joked. “Especially since the answer was wrong, it was very nice for Molly to acknowledge our attempt to help her daughter with some math homework.”

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The math may have been wrong, but the intentions were spot on, which is why Molly Draper is impressed with Officer Gruber.

“I didn’t believe her and asked for a screen shot. I thought it was pretty funny. And I love that they went ahead with it,” she told ABC News.

In Five Years, This Is What Esther Will Be Doing…

Gergő — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:20:17 +0000

In Five Years, This Is What Esther Will Be Doing…

She’s the coolest chick in England right now.

This is Esther Okade’s five-year plan:

– Graduate from Open University with a degree in math

– Earn her Ph.D.

– Begin running her own bank

She expects to cross these goals off of her to-do list by the time she’s 15 or 16.

Plenty of girls her age have expressed equally ambitious dreams, but Esther isn’t just daydreaming from a sandbox at her elementary school playground. She’s already an undergraduate at Open University — and, at only 10 years old, she’s currently at the top of her class.

She’s not just a math prodigy; she’s a math devotee. In an interview with The Birmingham Mail, Esther speaks about math the way most kids speak about macaroni and cheese. Or the way prepubescent girls speak about Harry Styles.

Video:

· So Esther, do you want to tell my why Math is your favourite subject.

· I just love Math. All the numbers, all the solving. It’s like a mystery.

· So, how are you finding your degree?

· Easy.

· Easy?!

· Super easy.

· So how quickly do you think you’re going to do it?

· Mmmm. I’m thinking … about two years.

· Fantastic. So what do you want to do when you finish your degree?

· Well, I go to my PHD. Then I’ll start running my own business. I want to be a banker.

· So you want to be running your own bank.

· Yep.

· How old do you think you’re going to be when you do that?

· Sixteen?

According to The Telegraph, Esther’s mother, Efe says her daughter wants to be a millionaire. And, if we know anything about Esther, she won’t have any trouble counting her money…

Elnézést kért a vizsgáztatótól a matek dolgozata miatt … 20 év múlva kapott választ!

Szalai Nóri — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:13:42 +0000

This woman wrote a note to her maths exam marker. What happened 20 years later will amaze you

A young Marion Dowling apologised for wasting the examiner’s time – but he was so impressed he tracked her down two decades later.

Marion Dowling was just 15 when she wrote a letter on her exam paper: "I apologise wholeheartedly that my paper came into your hands to mark. Obviously there is nothing to mark. You see I was entered for this exam against my will and many a long argument occurred between myself and Mr Asker, my maths teacher. Mathematically-minded I am not. So please don’t be annoyed that your time has been wasted on a silly maths paper. But merely remember my name as one day you will see it written on the corner of a painting hanging in the corner of the National Portrait Gallery. And you will be able to say ‘Ah, it’s that troublesome Marion Dowling girl for whom I marked a maths paper.’"

Now living in Thailand, the examiner returned Marion’s exam paper along with a note – and invited her to go and meet him.

In the note he said: "It’s wonderful to have found you. I suppose totally politically incorrect for me (a) to have kept it and (b) contact you – but then I’m a politically incorrect person! Come and visit us. I’d love to meet you."

Marion, now 39 and living in Lincolnshire, never managed her ambition of getting a painting in the Portrait Gallery – but works instead as a business development manager for London-based company Inspired Films.

The exam invigilator first tracked her down in 2011 via Facebook and later posted her the exam paper back along with a note.

After posting the two letters on Twitter this week Marion was deluged with messages of people touched by the story.

She said: "I thought it was the loveliest thing in the world to hang on to my exam paper for all that time. Since I posted it on Twitter it’s been getting a lot of love – it seems as if it’s really touched peoples’ hearts that a stranger would get in touch after all this time."

source: Mirror

note – megjegyzés, üzenet
exam marker – az írásbeli vizsga értékelője
exam – vizsga
to amaze – csodálatba ejt
to apologise – elnézést kér
to waste – elpocsékol
to be impressed by sg. – nagy hatással van rá vmi
to track down – felkutatni
decade – évtized
wholeheartedly – teljes szívből
to mark – osztályozni, értékelni
to enter – itt: elindul, részt vesz
against sy’s will – akarata ellenére
mathematically-minded – matekos agyú
annoyed – ideges
silly – buta
maths paper – matekdolgozat
corner – sarok
troublesome – kellemetlen, neveletlen
examiner – vizsgáztató
to return – visszajuttat
to invite – meghív
politically incorrect – nem politikailag korrekt
to manage – beteljesít, sikerül
business development manager – értékesítési és marketing menedzser
invigilator – felügyelő
to deluge – eláraszt
hang on to sg. – ragaszkodik valamihez
to touch – megérint
to get in touch – kapcsolatba lép

Choose the correct words for the sentences.

1. Marnie was a …………….. girl, she always got into fights even as a little girl.
a) kind
b) troublesome

2. They pushed me to do this against my ……..
a) will
b) want

3. The …………. was very strict, hardly anybody got a good mark.
a) examiner
b) exterminator

4. Peter and Paula got really ………….. and frustrated at the restaurant because the chef kept talking to them all evening.
a) calm
b) annoyed

5. Can you write your name in the …………. of your paper?
a) corner
b) corncob

answers: 1-b 2-a 3-a 4-b 5-a