Occasional Observations of Traveling Technology Coach

Many schools use Go Math for their math instruction.

it is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publishers.

I turned to a random page in a Go Math student workbook.

Question 28 states that 36 people are going camping for Max’s family reunion. They need to sleep in cabin tents (which hold ten people) and vista tents (which hold eight people). The student must determine the exact number of tents that the campers will need. If a student needs more help, they can use their ipad or phone to scan the QR code, which directs the student to an online video of “Math on the Spot with Professor Burger,” who helps explain how to solve the problem.

Here is a still shot from the video.

According to Professor Burger, there are only 34 people camping at the reunion. Two people are missing!

Bad math bro!

All I can think about is that two children must have wandered off into the woods, and instead of the adults sending a search party right away, they all want to get a good night’s sleep in their cabin and vista tents.