Wouldn’t you have to define the different units in that example? Ie (1f+4h)H =1fH or something like that? Thus not simply 1+4=1? Lol I’m not a very mathy guy so that’s probably not the right way to express that situation but I think you would have to define that 1 is the fox, 4 the hens and then those in context of being added in a hen house results in 1 fox in the hen house
Sure, and that is what I did. I just used words instead of notation. But is a riddle for 8 year-olds to teach critical thinking. As you just pointed though, you could take another level into mathematical notation & use the concept for a Grade 9 algebra class.
Wouldn’t you have to define the different units in that example? Ie (1f+4h)H =1fH or something like that? Thus not simply 1+4=1? Lol I’m not a very mathy guy so that’s probably not the right way to express that situation but I think you would have to define that 1 is the fox, 4 the hens and then those in context of being added in a hen house results in 1 fox in the hen house
Sure, and that is what I did. I just used words instead of notation. But is a riddle for 8 year-olds to teach critical thinking. As you just pointed though, you could take another level into mathematical notation & use the concept for a Grade 9 algebra class.