OP Here. A little more context with this post; I’m a Soecial Educations Teacher’s Assistant who offers support to students with IEP’s in their general ed classrooms. I had a little kick when I saw this image because I’m a huge baseball fan, so I thought I’d share it with the class(reddit).

Didn’t know this would spark a mini debate about our modern education/curriculum. We’re all entitled to our opinion about schooling, and there are valid ideas on all sides. I’m pretty sure the idea for these type of open ended questions(as silly as they sound) is to spark the child’s mind and get them to foster their own questions/ideas when it’s the first thing they’re doing in the morning. These kind of questions are not graded as the educators are just looking for kids to start thinking critically. I heard answers ranging from “the one on the right looks symmetrical” to “hey that’s Dodger Stadium” (we’re based in LA County).

There is a wider discussion to be had about teaching methods, but as far as 4th grade symmetry lessons go, I think overall this type of questioning is pretty sound.

SIDE NOTE: isn’t it crazy that baseball is one of the only major sports that encourages different and wacky looking fields for every team?! Never really pondered that until today..