Saturday, January 27, 2024

Symphony



 
The story of this viral test question is here. (Thanks, Ludvig!)

5 comments:

  1. For some reason, Yakety Sax comes to mind.

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  2. Ah, Beethoven's 4.5th symphony, 20 times better than Chopin'e Opus 64, No.1

    Go on, look it up, you know you want to ... it'll only take a minute.

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  3. 40 minutes? 40.5 minutes? 20 minutes? 38 minutes?

    How long is a piece of string?

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  4. If one woman can have a baby in nine months, nine women ought to be able to do it in one month.

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  5. Per the teacher who created it, the worksheet asked students to identify which scenarios were direct proportions, which were inverse proportions, and which were red-herrings where proportion was not an appropriate approach.

    https://time.com/4979608/beethoven-trick-question/

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