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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Checked with a mathematician. He laughed. Opposite is not a math word. My 7th grader did not learn opposite as a math vocab word. One can infer what it probably means (opposite linearly wrt zero). This is an example of some person who doesn't understand math making up a ridiculous question. That's all. It doesn't demonstrate any mathematical knowledge whatsoever. Again, guessing what the person who wrote the test wants you to say.

Wouldn't it be better to ask an arithmetic question or useful numberline question instead? Something to demonstrate, does this child know how to add, or subtract, or move about the number line?[/quote]

+1  I immediately asked my husband about this.  He's a PhD physicist (Northwestern University) and he said exactly what your mathematician friend said.  It's not a math term.  He had never heard it used that way either.

My feeling is that many math people are not necessarily good "word" people (I live with one).  But if they are given a problem, they can solve it and show that they can pass math.  [/quote]

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