10-YEAR-OLD ASKS COPS FOR HELP WITH MATH HOMEWORK

The Marion, Ohio, Police Department found a question on their Facebook page from 10-year-old Lena Draper, who needed help with her math homework. A screen capture showed Lena asking, “I’m having trouble with my math homework. Could you help me?” The police asked what she needed help with. “Well I don’t understand (8+29) x 15,” Draper responded. The cops answered: “Do the numbers in the parenthesis first so in essence it would be 37 x 15,” the officer responded. Then Lena asked a second question: (90 + 27) + (29 + 15) x 2. The officer told her to “take the answer from the first parenthesis plus the answer from the second parenthesis and multiply that answer times two. Work left to right, doing the the work inside the parenthesis first.” That’s when everybody pointed out that he was wrong – you should only multiply the second parenthesis times 2. Despite the wrong answer, Draper’s mother Molly Draper was thankful to the officer for helping her daughter get through her the assignment. “Thank you, Marion, Ohio Police Department, for truly building relationships with the community,” she said.
* Still, she gave them a D-minus in math.
* The officer only chose the correct answer 50% of the time. Kind of like the voters with the election.
* I’ll leave it to you to decide which 50% of the voters got it right.
* Sure, make the poor kid dependent on help from others. That’s how we got into this mess.
* Why didn’t she just ask Siri?
* Were you like me? Did you just skip past the math without even trying to figure it out yourself?
* “This is 9-1-1 dispatch. Sorry, the police can’t respond to your break-in right now. They’re doing math homework.”
* Uh oh. Now the kid wants the police to write an essay on the American Civil War.
* Plus she’s asking if they ever read “A Tale of Two Cities” and could they do a book report for her?