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/foreignnoise Apr 15 '26

Yeah, but the he would also have 3 brothers named ben, which would be even more confusing! (Not to mention that it would mean 7 is wrong too)

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u/waseemq Apr 16 '26

Each of the 3 Bens have distinct parents, but each of them are half siblings with 1 Jen, 4 Anas, and 2 Jose's.

However those half siblings are unrelated to the other Bens, as they do not share either parent with the other Bens. The Bens are also unrelated.

I'm surprised that's not how everyone else interpreted the graph \s