I would love to hear their answer. Yikes and I were discussing the 5 year old equivalent last night. She was doing her homework and it was typically unchallenging for her (draw 4 things that start with A and write their names under the picture) so she wanted to do something more interesting to her on the worksheet. I hated insisting that she do the homework correctly before doing something more interesting on her own, especially since I think the homework is total BS. But I do want her to figure out when it makes sense to buck the bs and when it makes sense to play along even though it's bs.

Can you still estimate to a reasonably correct answer, or did school beat that out of you?