Last week, I answered the challenge question of basic mathematics given by Ed Southall @solvemymaths, the author of “Yes But Why?” and “Geometry Snacks” in his twitter timeline.
Here is the question:
What fraction is shaded?
My reply was late. But, I still did that, because I did many times answering maths questions that were appear in my timeline. Some people had already answered in correctly, some just gave up immediately and replied with funny responses and some did wrong.
Few days after that, I found my name spotted by thisisinsider.com as one of the users whose rose to the challenge.
Ed’s question has gone viral. He caught up by many medias from UK. The famous Ed should be proud, however, I also proud and very happy because my name was spotted in the media…. hahaha 😀 I am joking that I am famous now. #eh
The idea of giving question in social media, is always interesting. It depends on the purpose of course. As a teacher, you can use your social media to challenge your students with questions. Make the link between you and your students. See how your students will response on it. As Ed, he wants to spread the fun of learning mathematics, I believe, he regularly challenge people by his (not so hard) questions, actually, but will make people to think before answer. Including me.
This is fun and very useful, to make friends in social media from other countries, and see what people think about many things, especially in educations.
