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Bet You Can't Solve This Viral Math Question Meant For First Graders

May 19 2018 - 9:20am

Well, folks, the internet is back at it again with the exposing of terrible and impossible test questions meant for little kids [1]. In this episode, we have a math pattern question shared in an online forum [2], which apparently appeared as a bonus on an exam for first graders in Singapore.

"Study the number pattern. Fill in the missing numbers," the instructions on the question read. Under the text appears a circle split in four with different numbers in each section, smaller circles in between each quarter, and one circle in the middle with the number 3 inside.

Check it out above and see if you can solve it (we couldn't), and if you want a spoiler, find one of the forum's users' explanations below, which makes sense but is a conclusion we never would have been brought to on our own (even with help, our reaction was still "WTF").


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https://www.popsugar.com/family/Math-Pattern-Question-First-Graders-43546299