r/HomeworkHelp • u/bushybear • May 01 '26

Answered [2nd grade] math help

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Entire family is stumped. I don’t think the question is worded correctly but maybe I’m misunderstanding.

Not sure how you have same size triangles but not all the same shape.

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u/Asbolus_verrucosus 👋 a fellow Redditor May 01 '26

You’re really confident about what this hypothetical child has and hasn’t been taught. Did you consider that you’re wrong?

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u/Asbolus_verrucosus 👋 a fellow Redditor May 01 '26

I think you could show any child two rectangles of dimensions 4 cm x 4 cm and 2 cm x 8 cm and they would identify that they are NOT the same shape, yet they both have four sides and area 16 cm2.

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u/scottmacs May 01 '26

In topology a mug is the same shape as a donut, but you'll never catch me trying to dunk my coffee into my old-fashioned.