{"id":7287,"date":"2016-07-07T21:09:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profpete.com.au\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2016-07-07T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T11:09:07","slug":"math-news-facebook-flower-math-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/math-news-facebook-flower-math-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"K-6 Math in the News: Facebook Flower Math Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen this math puzzle? Do you know what the correct answer is?<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/afBylaP5JnI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Original article link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/lifestyle\/real-life\/wtf\/can-you-work-out-this-mindbending-flower-puzzle\/news-story\/a463a90a040d4b00a2ebe58b1c064fe5\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Can You Work Out This Mind-bending Flower Puzzle?<\/em><\/a> &#8211; News.com Australia, 17th June 2016<\/p>\n<p>If you teach math, like me, your friends probably sent you this math puzzle, thinking you&#8217;d like it &#8220;because you&#8217;re a teacher&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As a general thing, that&#8217;s fine. In fact, I welcome math puzzles especially if they have some actual math in them, something to work out.<\/p>\n<p>This puzzle looks great when you first see it, but ultimately it&#8217;s more of a tease than a proper math puzzle. In fact, I find it downright frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>Why? If you&#8217;ve seen it on Facebook, a news article, or elsewhere on social media, you&#8217;ll have seen people arguing about whether the fact that the final blue flower has 4 petals, rather than the 5 on other blue flowers, makes any difference to the result.<\/p>\n<p>My take on this: the question is ambiguous, and the correct answer isn&#8217;t what it appears at first.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll need to watch the video above to hear my full response. Keep watching until the end of the video, where I offer an alternative math puzzle, one that has an actual, bona fide correct answer.<\/p>\n<p>Think you have an answer to the flower puzzle? Do you have the answer to my square puzzle? Leave a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen this math puzzle? Do you know what the correct answer is? Original article link: Can You Work Out This Mind-bending Flower Puzzle? &#8211; News.com Australia, 17th June 2016 If you teach math, like me, your friends probably sent you this math puzzle, thinking you&#8217;d like it &#8220;because you&#8217;re a teacher&#8221;. As a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/math-news-facebook-flower-math-puzzle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;K-6 Math in the News: Facebook Flower Math Puzzle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,38,12],"tags":[28,39],"class_list":["post-7287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-math-in-the-news","category-math-puzzles","category-teaching-mathematics","tag-math-in-the-news","tag-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}