

7 year old kid in a teacher friend's class seems to have misunderstood the question. Bless.

If that lion IS 12cm long. Then I think this child will go far.
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 11:51,
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Especially in third year uni.
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 11:53,
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It's amazing how many undergrads don't appear to be able to read and will spend an hour avoiding a thirty-minute task...
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 11:54,
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Here's a story from my office mate, the text of the practical (statistics, computational 'practical') was something along the lines of "Define a vector, ie:v"
So the student typed ie:v and wondered why it wasn't working.
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 12:01,
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So the student typed ie:v and wondered why it wasn't working.

>>reallyLongVariableName = 3.5 i.e. x
>>y = x ** 2
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 12:09,
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>>y = x ** 2

but if knew how to measure out 12cm, seeing as though he drew a lion that's exactly 12cm long, that shows that he knows what 12cm is.
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 11:59,
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I'm not really berating the kid, it's the sort of smart-arsed thing that I'd do too...
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 12:03,
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that I was giving a talk on Napoleon when the audience actually wanted one on Napoleon III... How embarrassing.
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 12:12,
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understand how to measure out 12cm on a ruler then he/she was successful.
Top marks.
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 11:59,
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Top marks.