This is from a Pearson online graded thing, if you don’t happen to recognize it. It probably would have taken 161/4 (edited) as a correct answer as well (IMO 40 1/4 is ambiguous, improper).
The software is more than capable of determining that 40.25=40+1/4 so its not really excusable (unless its specifically trying to teach fractions for middle schoolers or something)
That said, A lot of my calc 3 homework (multi variable calculus) in college was run by Pearson, and while it wasn’t perfect, the fact that it was autograded with multiple attempts allowed made learning the material easy. Immediate feedback is incredible.
Fuck Pearson though, honestly. This shit is expensive and it’s still got noticeable flaws. Last Pearson course I took kept trying to get me to use their shitty AI and pay extra for shit. I’m a student, not a potential customer to shake down.
Speaking from a decade ago but Khan Academy’s system(at the time called mastery, not sure what it is now) was leaps and bounds better for learning calculus.
Also I’m pretty sure this meme is from back then too.
I love Khan academy so much. I don’t know how good it is nowadays, but it’s one of the things that shaped my perspective on the internet as I was growing up alongside the changing web; Yes, there is all sorts of awfulness online, and so many complex harms, but there are also so many awesome learning resources and enthusiastic people who want to share their knowledge. Khan academy did a lot for democratising knowledge, and is a concrete answer in the discussion of “what might ‘learning outside of the academy’ look like?”
The key difference between Pearson’s shitty maths thing and Khan academy’s equivalent is that Khan academy was started by a dude who was genuinely interested in bringing learning materials to people, and exploring online teaching as a new medium. Pearson is a soulless entity that exists to wring money out of everything it can.
OP had an ambiguous notation. One that tends to be taught in schools as the way to present a ‘proper fraction’ (or perhaps compound fraction, i forget, it’s not important) by factoring out the integer component.
Later on in schooling, one is discouraged from using the notation because of the entirely reasonable way of interpreting it that you’ve used when thinking algebraicly.
It’s like that Facebook shit that uses the division operator. It’s ambiguous, so there is no way to be authoritative in the interpretation.
This is from a Pearson online graded thing, if you don’t happen to recognize it. It probably would have taken 161/4 (edited) as a correct answer as well (IMO 40 1/4 is ambiguous, improper).
The software is more than capable of determining that 40.25=40+1/4 so its not really excusable (unless its specifically trying to teach fractions for middle schoolers or something)
That said, A lot of my calc 3 homework (multi variable calculus) in college was run by Pearson, and while it wasn’t perfect, the fact that it was autograded with multiple attempts allowed made learning the material easy. Immediate feedback is incredible.
Fuck Pearson though, honestly. This shit is expensive and it’s still got noticeable flaws. Last Pearson course I took kept trying to get me to use their shitty AI and pay extra for shit. I’m a student, not a potential customer to shake down.
Did they force you to pay Pearson just to submit required coursework?
I remember that shit and it radicalized me against the textbook mafia
Speaking from a decade ago but Khan Academy’s system(at the time called mastery, not sure what it is now) was leaps and bounds better for learning calculus.
Also I’m pretty sure this meme is from back then too.
I love Khan academy so much. I don’t know how good it is nowadays, but it’s one of the things that shaped my perspective on the internet as I was growing up alongside the changing web; Yes, there is all sorts of awfulness online, and so many complex harms, but there are also so many awesome learning resources and enthusiastic people who want to share their knowledge. Khan academy did a lot for democratising knowledge, and is a concrete answer in the discussion of “what might ‘learning outside of the academy’ look like?”
The key difference between Pearson’s shitty maths thing and Khan academy’s equivalent is that Khan academy was started by a dude who was genuinely interested in bringing learning materials to people, and exploring online teaching as a new medium. Pearson is a soulless entity that exists to wring money out of everything it can.
I worked support for Pearson about 15 or so years ago and uh… yeah, fuck Pearson.
41/4 is 10.25
Correct, but not what is shown in the OP.
The OP has 40*1/4 which is 10.
OP had an ambiguous notation. One that tends to be taught in schools as the way to present a ‘proper fraction’ (or perhaps compound fraction, i forget, it’s not important) by factoring out the integer component.
Later on in schooling, one is discouraged from using the notation because of the entirely reasonable way of interpreting it that you’ve used when thinking algebraicly.
It’s like that Facebook shit that uses the division operator. It’s ambiguous, so there is no way to be authoritative in the interpretation.
I agree in principal, but: 40 1/2 = 40/1 + 1/4 = 160/4 + 1/4 = 161/4
You right, I’m tired