Saturday, 22 March 2014

None of the above

In our math worksheets, sometimes there creeps a question where there is no correct answer given or the options given are all incorrect. It is actually an error on our part. If we have an option saying ‘none of the above’, it is okay, but if we don’t have one, the children are perplexed!

This reflects a psyche among us that every question must have a correct ‘prescribed’ answer. If there is no answer, then something is wrong with the question. The student and even the parent sometimes is so uncomfortable with such a thing, that they immediately need a correction of either the question or the answers to be completely satisfactory.

Or else there is this nagging doubt that lingers on whether they are correct.


But life is not like that. In fact life hardly ever presents us with a problem with all but one incorrect options. 

And the solution is more often than not ‘none of the above’!

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