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In the Board of Aldermen chambers last night, Ken Matthews placed a classic right triangle onto an overhead projector — with sides of 3, 4 and x.
The instructions? “Find x.” The answer? Circling the letter “X,” according to Matthews, the New Haven Public Schools math supervisor.
After all, he said, answering “5” would have meant following a traditional educational mindset.
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