Education!

[Softus]

Not a trick question!

Its not a question of the mathmatical skills which are quite low. Its a test of that ability to understand the problem and translate it into the required mathmatics!

In which case it was a trick question, because you wrote:

At what age will the child be able to calculate in their head how many beans each parent will eat?

...although I don't know what you wrote before you edited the post.

Has this 6 y.o. succeeded?

This is getting a bit bizarre. What six year old?

I would not have thought many under 10 would be able to.

You didn't ask "how many under ten would be able", you asked "At what age will the child be able...?"

Could this be a good time for you to explain the background behind the question, so that we can have a proper debate about it?

 

[johnny_t]

Just conjecture here, but have you (Tony) by any chance got a ten year old who is having trouble working it out, and his Mum's getting all worked up about it in that way that Mums do (like worrying about who is sitting up first, or crawling first, speaking first, reading first and stuff like that).

If so, post the question again, we'll write back saying 10 or 11, and you can show her that and get some peace.

 

[securespark]

Don't think my boy at 7 can divide an odd number....

 

[hermes]

I would not have thought many under 10 would be able to.

I asked my 10 yo this morning and he could divide 37 by 2, 3 and 4 but got stuck at 5. I reckon plenty of 6-7 year-olds could divide 37 by 2.

 

[2scoops0406]

I know that my 6 yo boy couldn't do it, He has just turned 6 though. I would reckon he'd be able to do it when he was 7 to 8 years old on paper, probably 8 to 10 years old in his head.

 

[splinter]

I wouldn't even bother asking my 17yr ,as tall as he is it would saddly go right over his head