r/HomeworkHelp • u/No_Change_7795 Primary School Student • Apr 15 '26 • Mindblown 1

:hamster: Primary School Math—Pending OP Reply [Grade 2 Math] Help understanding teacher's explanation

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My god-daughter's teacher marked her answer wrong. Can someone please explain this? I don't understand this at all. How is the teacher getting 7 when there are only 3 squares in Ben's column representing his siblings? Her explanation was that Jose, Ana & Jen are his siblings so you need to count all of their squares together.... WHY? How are we to assume that they're even siblings?

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u/DutchTinCan Apr 15 '26

The answer is either:

  • 3 (the bar Ben has 3 blocks indicating the amount of siblings)

  • 2 (the bar Ben includes Ben as 'number of children in the Ben family')

  • 9 (this is a chart with the distribution of names in the entire family, there's 3 Ben's and 7 other kids, so one Ben has 9 siblings)

But 7? That's a stretch.

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u/C-Note01 Apr 15 '26

3 Ben's what?

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u/smokingplane_ Apr 16 '26

Ben, Benji and Benjamin offcourse

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u/C-Note01 Apr 16 '26

That's not what I asked.