Fourth-grader delivers brilliant response to maths problem
THIS may look like a pretty normal maths problem, but one youngster’s answer for it was anything but. It has the internet in fits of laughter.
IT LOOKS like a pretty standard homework question, but this primary school student’s response to it is the greatest thing you will read today.
Fourth-grader Maddy Douglas was given a maths problem about eight high-schoolers going through a very interesting dating process.
“In high school, Frank, Mike, George and Ron each went out on a total of four dates with four different girls. The second time Frank dated Rose and George dated Kay. The third time Mike dated Mary and Ron dated Louise. The fourth time, George dated Louise and Ron dated Kay. Of each of the four times, tell which girl dated which boy.
HINT: For the fourth date Louise dated George and Kay dated Ron. You know Frank dated Rose on the second date, who had to be Frank’s fourth date?”
Basically, all the people in this group just want to hook up with each other like it’s an episode of Beverly Hills 90210. Although why you’d want to date anyone named George should be the real question.
But little Maddy — the wise old soul that she is — was having none of it.
“I can’t answer this problem because my mom says acoording (sic) to girl code you (shouldn’t) date a friend’s x boyfriend,” her answer reads.
BOOM! DAMN RIGHT, MADDY. #GIRLCODE ALL THE WAY.
The epically sassy post went viral after her mum, Jenn Douglas, shared it to the Huffington Post’s Facebook page.
Jenn Douglas told The Huffington Post the original problem shocked her, although she was proud of her daughter’s response.
“I consider myself to be a completely open-minded type person and, as a single mom, try to teach my children about equality and about different types of people they will encounter, but my first reaction was it was not an appropriate question for a fourth-grader or really any grade,” she said.
The Huffington Post reported that Douglas’s teacher laughed at her answer and said, “Good point”.
All we can say is this: Maddy is a brilliant friend and a life coach way beyond her years.
Ten years from now, she’ll be the one counselling her best friends over their terrible dating choices, and hiding their phones when they want to call their exes.
She’ll be the go-to gal for hard-hitting relationship advice, and the expert wingwoman who drinks $30 martinis and sizes people up faster than you can swipe left on a Tinder profile.
She’ll always put you in a taxi when she knows you’ve had enough to drink, but she’s tough enough to call you out when you ditch your mates for a date. She’s Carrie Bradshaw without all those things that made Carrie Bradshaw so damn annoying.
In short, she is the hero our city deserves. And we salute you for that, Maddy.
