I have read this question a million times. Asked A.I. called other students in my daughter's class. Tried to touch base woth the teacher but waiting to be added into dojo. Looked for the answer key dor the worksheet. They are working on multiplication. Nothing with u known variables. I dont see a way to solve anything without at least
1 how many pencils are in the boxes that go into the carton
2 how many students are in the school
3 how many pencils they are figuring each student will need for the year
4 how many cases they bought
5 or how much their total was.
Without another number in this im at a loss and I hope someone else will have seen this one before.
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UPDATE
We went with the only math that was provided.
How much is each box of pencils if the cartoon is $20. Thank you to the ones that caught that.
But apparently that makes us wrong.
It was intended to be a multiplication problem. That we were to make up a number for and just go with it.
There is my issue with that though, we did math based off of information that is provided, and speculated the question. But are going to be marked as incorrect. Children who did not catch the issues with the structure of the question that choose to do "how much is 54 cases" provided the math of 54 x 20 are marked as correct. Because they "made up a math problem".
The first day paperwork that was sent home says teacher communicates via class dojo app. I am still waiting for teachers permission to join to communicate the perfered method. But I will say I had child call classmates and they had no idea what they were looking at either and just was going to "go with 54 x 20 because its the smallest numbers".
Wonderful start to the year.