Well, he/she is not wrong.
Forty is the only number when spelled out that is in alphabetical order
With more than three repetitions of the same algorithm the kid should’ve been automating the process.
- alphabet
- come
- in
- order
- the
- they
Correct. It’s obviously supposed to be an ordered set, and that’s why there are 6 slots for 6 unique words.
FTFY:
5. the
6. theThe alphabet provided ends with X. However, you apparently remove duplicates so maybe just cross out the last row?
Still an error unfortunately. Should be:
- the
- bart
- the
One important skill for school is to look at the entire question so that you can understand what the teacher is asking for, even if they don’t format the question exactly right.
In this case, your answer would not fit into the 6 spaces provided for the answer.
So you have to ask yourself what they meant by “Write the following words”. Since “the” is the same word repeated twice, once you’ve written “the” after 5, then I could argue that “the” has already been written.
Therefore, if there are only six blanks for the answer, looking at the entire question, I argue that the answer I provided is most likely correct.
The question is poorly worded. It asks for words in the order they come in the alphabet. Words aren’t in the alphabet. Letters are in the alphabet, so they reordered the letters.
That’s not being pedantic, it’s just wrong. Do you not call the order of words in a dictionary “alphabetical order”?
Is that what was wrong here?
I like how fox stays the same.
I like how pond is backwards.
Eirrv is such a better word for river that I’m retconning the English language
Feels like some new age Sindarin. I’m here for it tbh.
i wonder how many words are like that
I wish there were a free database of words to answer that question. :(
It makes sense if not taught the conventions of alphabetizing first. Kids don’t know what they don’t know.
Mr. Rogers understood this on a deep level.
Or autistic. Most definitely autistic.
OP already said programmer
Some become engineers.
I like this kid.
maliciousnaive complianceIn case anyways else looked for the comments to try to figure out what was done wrong, the expected answer would be: apple, fox, log, pond, pumpkim, river.
I couldn’t figure out what the clue was that the kid would be a programmer. Surely any kid could have gotten this right? Then I read your comment and it all made sense. Thank you.
And yes, yes I am a programmer.
Seriously?
Are you asking if I was confused how they did something wrong? Yes.
Are you asking if “apple, fox, log, pond, pumpkim, river” was the intended answer? Also probably yes (but I didn’t make it, so I can’t be sure).
I was sent to the principals office several times in elementary school because my teachers thought I was trying to be a smart ass. Because I would do what they literally, exactly asked me to do, and not what they apparently meant.
I was always very confused because I honestly believed I was doing my best to follow instructions.
It didn’t help that I grew up in the American southeast, a region where patterns of speech are very indirect and lean heavily on idioms and metaphors.
I was in middle school before I figured out what was happening and did not get into trouble in that way anymore. I’m in my 40s now but I’m still a literal-first thinker. And yeah, I’m a programmer.
So you would have done the same as the kid?
As a child, I’d probably get from context what was actually wanted since it probably complemented in-class lessons. But in primary school, I also sometimes liked to push the limits of what was asked. So I might do this and also put what was intended to the side.
I would have done the same right now as an adult.
