Had the same level of frustrated "how-can-you-be-so-fucking-stupid" with my fifth grade teacher who told me that you can't see further than a kilometer, and definitely not on a road - despite us taking a trip on one every year to my grandparents. My dad laughed at her in disbelief.
I had little respect for her: she also marked me down on using a word in an essay (admittedly, the word was lesser known), but I had an excellent vocabulary since I ate books for breakfast.
So instead of looking it up in the damn dictionary, she thought I was careless and stupid and tried to interpret it as being two other possible words (none of which fit the context). My mom sent a letter to her and attached copies of the pages from several dictionaries stating the meaning thereof.
Teacher rolled her eyes and argued with me despite the irrevocable proof. Eventually we got it marked right, but she had such a fucking attitude about it for the rest of the year.
While I think the kid's right, the teacher isn't necessarily wrong. The exercise is a "reasonableness" math exercise the point being to determine the difference between the fractions and whether the statement is reasonable given those specific fractions.
It is a poorly written question then . It says Marty ate more as a fact. Making it "bigger pizza" theory more probable than thinking "the fact stated is a lie"
So instead of looking it up in the damn dictionary, she thought I was careless and stupid and tried to interpret it as being two other possible words (none of which fit the context). My mom sent a letter to her and attached copies of the pages from several dictionaries stating the meaning thereof.
Teacher rolled her eyes and argued with me despite the irrevocable proof. Eventually we got it marked right, but she had such a fucking attitude about it for the rest of the year.