Are kids being taught incorrectly? | eBay Café

cee-dee · 2025-06-04T15:34:55.350000Z

I saw what was supposed to be a maths question for elmentary schoolkids on the Daily Mail website.It was 500 plus 450 divided by 5. The answer was supposed to be 590 according to "the rules of maths". So if, let's say a large bakery baked a batch of 500 loaves and then another batch of 450 loaves, the total of which was supposed to be sent out in an equal amount to 5 different supermarkets, how many would each supermarket get? I say 190. So are "the rules of maths" a daft way of teaching kids or not?

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