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What was wrong with the NCEA Level 2 Maths problem?
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A curly question in last week's NCEA Level 2 maths exam has prompted dozens of complaints, with a university maths professor saying those who put the test together 'messed up'.
The question asked students to work out the area of a section of a shape - but the answer was geometrically impossible.
NZQA has received 27 complaints so far, but while it has admitted there was an error in the question's design, it says that would not have prevented students from attempting it.
Checkpoint cameraman Nick Monro and reporter Nita Blake-Persen visited Padraic Bartlett, a mathematics professor at the University of Auckland to crunch the numbers.
The question asked students to work out the area of a section of a shape - but the answer was geometrically impossible.
NZQA has received 27 complaints so far, but while it has admitted there was an error in the question's design, it says that would not have prevented students from attempting it.
Checkpoint cameraman Nick Monro and reporter Nita Blake-Persen visited Padraic Bartlett, a mathematics professor at the University of Auckland to crunch the numbers.
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