Wednesday, July 5, 2023

‘What is the closest time to midnight?’: Maths question for kids causes confusion



The problem was posted on Twitter by user @yawdmontweet from Jamaica, who said the question 'hurt his head'.
PHOTO: The problem was posted on Twitter by user @yawdmontweet from Jamaica, who said the question “hurt his head”.
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On the face of it, it is a rather straightforward question.

But a maths question for children about time that was posted on social media has gone viral, racking up 1.4 million views after leaving people vacillating between more than one seemingly valid answer.

The problem was posted on Twitter by user @yawdmontweet from Jamaica, who said the question “hurt his head”.

The question was: “What is the closest time to midnight?”

The following options were provided as potential answers: A. 11.55am, B. 12.06am, C. 11.50am, and D. 12.03am.


Posted by Minister of Foolishness 🇯🇲 🇬🇧🇺🇸@yawdmontweet on 22 June 2023 at 7:00 am
https://twitter.com/yawdmontweet/status/1671654277201133572


Social media users appeared to have been thrown off by the question, and commented with different answers.

Many thought the answer was D. because it is only three minutes away from midnight.

But others countered that 12.03am is the closest after midnight, not to midnight, because time moves forward.

Going by that logic, the answer should be A, they said, since 11.55am is 12 hours and 5 minutes to midnight. 12.03am would be 23 hours and 57 minutes to midnight, and thus the furthest.

Many Twitter users disagreed, arguing that the question relates to proximity, not chronology.

Some respondents said the question was confusing because of how it was worded. There was no indication of “which midnight” the question was referring to.

For one person though, the answer was simple: ask artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.


Posted by Minister of Foolishness 🇯🇲 🇬🇧🇺🇸@yawdmontweet on 22 June 2023 at 7:00 am
Posted together by SumnNoRightYa 🇯🇲@_b0ston_ on 23 June 2023 at 01:17 am
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 人不過是一根蘆葦 · Rén bù guò shì yī gēn lú wěi·
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是自然界最脆弱的東西, shì zì rán jiè zuì cuì ruò de dōng xī,
但他卻是一根會思考的蘆葦 dàn tā què shì yī gēn huì sī kǎo de lú wěi
Man is but a reed
the most feeble thing in nature
but he is a thinking reed - Pensées (reflection) by Blaise Pascal
There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.
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Reference
[1] Keval Singh, The New Paper, ‘What is the closest time to midnight?’: Maths question for kids causes confusion, posted on 30 June 2023 at 07:36 pm, https://tnp.straitstimes.com/news/world/what-closest-time-midnight-maths-question-kids-causes-confusion?dicbo=v2-YV1H0S0


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