Can you solve this first grade homework problem?
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My first thought was that there is no right or wrong answer. The problem is just to see how well a student is able to explain and justify their choice.
I thought the same thing
Exactly my thought as well. I'm sure you could give reasoning for any of the answers.
My first instinct was silver, because silver is a material, the others are things that can be made out of materials. Though "silver" can also refer to a silver coin.
Continuing the video now, I'm curious.
Edit: yeah!
I thought so too... Friend - Because all others are inanimate things; Egg - Because all others are inedible; Silver - As it is the only metallic object; I was unable to quickly come out with a rationale for Desk and Toothbrush, but I thought there must be some rationale for selecting them that I am unable to think of...
Exactly my thoughts.
@@pradeepsekar I wouldn't say the others are all inedible. You can get some meat from a friend.
And you can interpret that however you like.
As a guy with a degree in chemistry I always look at silver as a noun first. I went with toothbrush because it’s the only word that doesn’t have an “e” in it
I'm a college chemistry student and I chose silver. Even if you consider silver a noun, it's an uncountable noun, while the other four are countable. You can have "a" or "an" before the others, a toothbrush, an egg, a friend, but you can't have "a silver".
@@japanpanda2179 sure you can, you just have to switch languages. Some languages do not have a concept of countable v. uncountable noun.
I am a chemist, and I had the same reasoning.
@@japanpanda2179uncountable how? 3 grams Silver, 6 moles Silver, 5×10^19 atoms of Silver, 3 cm^3 Silver etc.
That would be measuring, not counting. With "uncountable" it is meant that you can't say "one silver", "five silver" etc.
In the community post, I was tempted to joke "I picked friend because it's the only one I don't have". I picked egg because it's the only one that starts with a vowel. It also seems to be something that sticks out to a 1st grader more than an adult that is more knowledgeable about these things and have a lot more to consider.
I immediately said toothbrush because it is a compound word. Interesting logic for the others. Guess I am right to always ask what my son is learning in class before I can try to answer some questions when helping with his homework. It usually gives me a clue to what the teacher is looking for as an answer.
i said toothbrush coz is the only one without an e in it
I immediately guessed toothbrush also, because it was the only compound word.
Yep, understanding the context for the question is critical.
It never occurred to me to think of silver as an adjective. I naturally thought of silver is a material.
Even if you consider silver a noun, it's an uncountable noun, while the other four are countable. You can have "a" or "an" before the others, a toothbrush, an egg, a friend, but you can't have "a silver".
@@japanpanda2179Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. I’d say you can count silver.
@@merkazoidduff7651 You said "pieces of silver" though, not "silvers"
@@japanpanda2179 A team can win two silvers (silver medal) at a tournament. Another example is that a purse can have six silvers (silver coin) in it.
@@japanpanda2179 In English, yes. Countability of nouns is not a concept universal to all languages.
“Hey man check out this chunk of silver I mined”
“You can’t mine silver, it’s an adjective”
Yes, and very *abstract* -- just like gold, platinum, copper, iron, aluminum...
Just what I was thinking. Both an adjective and a noun.
Look at how you wrote "this chunk of silver" and not "this silver"
Well, it still stands out, as it is both an adjective and a noun
@@Shatbatreferring to jewelry you could say "her silver" or "that silver there"
This is exactly why as a professor for many years (now retired) I NEVER gave True/False or multiple-choice questions on exams, unless I also added that full credit depended on giving a valid argument for your choice. Everyone's brain is wired differently and unless you allow the student's argument to be presented you cannot correctly evaluate the answer.
For me, Google Bard said:
This is a classic question with no single definitive answer, as different people might use different criteria to identify the odd one out. Here are some potential arguments for each word:
* **Friend:** This is the only living or abstract concept on the list, whereas the others are physical objects.
* **Desk:** This is the only piece of furniture, while the others are smaller personal items.
* **Egg:** This is the only natural object and the only food item on the list.
* **Toothbrush:** This is the only word with two syllables, while the others have one syllable.
* **Silver:** This is the only word that can function as both a noun (a precious metal) and an adjective (a color).
Ultimately, the "odd one out" depends on the perspective you take and the reasoning you prioritize. You can choose the answer that makes the most sense to you!
It's also worth noting that this question is often used as a test of critical thinking and logic skills, so there's no need to find the "right" answer. The important thing is to be able to identify and articulate your reasoning for your choice.
I hope this helps!
Silver has two syllables SMH
My daughter's teacher posed these types of questions at the start of the day. There are typically multiple answers, and it's more about justifying the reasoning. The kids can be as creative as they want as long as they can explain their reasoning.
I would wish that all teachers would have that attitude, but there is a large number of them that won't count any answer unless it's the one they thought of as right (if reddit posts with pictures attached surrounding this topic are any indication of cause).
That is good if you are teaching rhetoric, that is, how to argue and how to reason. If you are teaching the difference between adjectives and nouns, then silver really is the best answer, even though silver certainly can be a noun.
And if that was the point behind the question, I'd be absolutely on board with it. Give a question where the only wrong answer is to not know why you picked an answer. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case in this instance, so I still say this is an unfair question because every answer could be correct.
I was just about to post up-thread - you're totally right in my head. My initial thing was, "wait, any of those could be 'right'". Then I saw that the question was offered to young kids and I got it... "There is no 'right' answer, but how do you *think*?!"
This is actually the case all the way up to senior student classes, perhaps even more so then. For example, when you write an essay, something typically done by older students, your conclusions do not (or at least should not) affect the score at all - only your reasoning does. By contrast, younger students often answer simple memorization questions, "cross the correct statement", or simple calculations like "4 x 7". In those cases you either get it right or you don't.
Even in a relatively rigid subject like math, this is true. In the final years of my math class, I could get almost full score in a question where I get the answer entirely wrong - if that wrong answer was the result of a minor mistake and my overall approach was the correct one. Really, the bigger issue was that if you made a mistake, chances are the question is getting more difficult because the teacher had prepared the numbers to work out nicely, and because of your mistake it gets more complicated.
As soon as I saw the problem, I thought it was toothbrush because it is a compound word. It's crazy how all the other words have a reason to be the odd one. That's why I love logic puzzles.
I thought it was toothbrush because all the others have an E in them
@@snakeorbreak6258sameee
@@snakeorbreak6258same
i thought toothbrush cause it has a lot of letters
me too
I always find it rewarding when I participate in a UA-cam poll and then the UA-camr makes a video about the poll & results. This was a fun one to be a part of. Thanks so much for involving us!
1. The answer is friend
2. The rest are concrete nouns and a friend is technically not concrete
3. Silver, I imaged, was not the color but the physical silver
I chose toothbrush because of no "e". I also was thinking about this being aimed at 1st-graders, so I thought arguments about abstract concepts and analysis from number theory was unlikely to be the answer the asker had in mind, but if a young child could articulate such an answer, I certainly wouldn't tell them they were "wrong"! I also noticed that good reasons could be given for each choice. I noticed that this kind of outcome should remind us that when we pose this kind of question, we need to listen carefully to the answers, they may come up with valid reasoning that we didn't anticipate. There often is no one right answer, even if we think there is! This kind of question would be more useful as a class discussion exercise rather than a solitary test question with the implication that there is one right answer.
i chose toothbrush, but because it was the only compound word
You, uhhh, you misspelled kind there, this specific misspelling might be kinda important to fix...
It's friend because the others are all things and friend is a person
@@purevessle2641 Thanks, fixed it. I usually catch my typos, but I missed one this time!
friend is the only word with the letter N so it's the odd one out
toothbrush is the only word with the letter O so it's the odd one out
egg is the only word with the letter G so it's the odd one out
desk is the only word with the letter K so it's the odd one out
silver is the only word with the letter L so it's the odd one out
I chose "egg" because it's the only one that starts with a vowel. An ESL teacher here, yeah. But if I get an "odd one out" task that I give my students, I always accept any answers that are not in the answer key as long as the student justifies their answer well 😊
egg - can't eat a friend, desk, toothbrush, or a piece of / or color silver
question is poised to 6 yr olds
all these fancy math, and linguistic solutions are uncomprehendible to the average 6 yr old
What does it mean to be the odd one out?
Well, you could eat a friend if you're a cannibal.
@@mrosskne - It means that there's something that differentiates that option from all the other options. Sesame Street used to regularly teach this concept with their different versions of the "One of these things doesn't belong here" song.
@@schfooge what attributes are used to determine belonging?
On silver one that I like better is that all the rest are countable nouns (you have one friend, one desk, one toothbrush, one egg…). You cannot have “one silver” as it is an uncountable noun (you can have a lot of/little silver). Besides I remember learning about this concept in school and it would make sense in the context of homework.
I mean teeeeechnically, you could count every atom of silver...
Therefore silver is the only plural answer 🤔
Bread and water are also uncountable nouns by this definition...
Another out-of-box solution: All the first four options are something that a first grader would come accross everyday but not silver, unless they are from a fancy family. Hence, "silver" lmao.
The one that jumped out at me was friend, because I view a friend as a person, while all the other things were objects. I honestly, didn't even think of silver as the color, but as an actual object, like a chunk of silver.
Although "toothbrush" was the odd one for me, I thought of silver the same way you did.
Same reasoning that I had. It's more straightforward than saying a "Friend" is conditional and the others are constant.
Everything is an inanimate object except for friend
@@therobertguy2436I would think that an egg is also alive ?
@@sombrenouille9492 well whenever we get eggs from the supermarket, they are not alive. If it is farm fresh, then yes, but most people deal with eggs that are not alive.
I personally would choose "egg" but because it starts with a vowel and all the others with a consonant, and for a first grade pupil this would be also logical. I enjoyed every second of this video very much! Thank you!
egg is the only one you can eat
@@nickfielding5685No it isn't? You can eat all of those things.
@@ramudon2428 Only if you have pica and are also cannibalistic, which would be a rather uncommon combination of mental disorders to suffer from.
@@woland_ I didn't way one would like to eat these things, but you definitely could :p
That’s why voted for Egg in the poll. Jumped out as an obvious clear difference.
every time I have seen an "odd one out" thing, theres always been perfectly good reasons for each of them. It's not meant for you to figure out which one is odd, it's for you to stretch your brain and create a reasoning for one.
Egg or Toothbrush stuck out to me for the same reasons you gave. Given this is generally a math channel, I leaned towards egg for have an odd number of characters, but it was interesting to see desk had a mathematical reason for being out as well.
But Silver (chemical element Ag) *is* a noun, it is a thing, it is not descriptive.
Without context the whole question is open to interpretation
It could be friend as that can describe a person
It could be toothbrush as that is the only word with a total letter count with two digits
It could be egg as that is the only one with an odd number of letters
silver can be adjective
@@w999dIt can also be a verb, as can friend, which is the point I am making…there was no context to the question.
It is like having a question “What road does Bill need to take to get to London?
A - M4
B - M3
C - A30”
All three are correct, but without knowing what license Bill has or where he currently is we cannot answer the question and the same is true for this one.
The post put up yesterday proved that. We was missing one vital piece of information that only came to light in this video…”the children had been learning about nouns”. With that piece of information it becomes a choice of two being the odd one out. We then discover they are first grade so chances are they are learning colours not chemical elements so we can, with almost certainty, rule Silver out from being the noun.
These questions all come down to context, and without the context they are almost impossible to answer with any degree of certainty
It can be both often used as a color which would be descriptive.
Silverware can commonly be talked about as silver, in which case it becomes as a noun. 'I will clean the silver today'.
for me i choose silver because its the only thing thats not "one", you can have one friend, one desk, but not one silver, you only have a silver car, or silver ingot, silver bar, or 1 kg of silver, but not just 1 silver
I immediately gravitated to "Friend" as the odd one out because all other items were inanimate objects. But as long as there is the second step of explaining your reasoning, and other answers are accepted if the reasoning is sound, I think this is a great kind of question.
Egg could also be an option for it being the only edible object.
I mean you can eat a friend but they won’t be very happy about it
@@Eaten_squid_cake LMAO xD
@@Eaten_squid_cakeThat depends entirely on your definition of “eat.”
This insight brought to you by my teenage self (decades ago) who thought that a t-shirt in the mall was hilarious, and didn’t understand why my mom wouldn’t buy it for me: “Save a tree: Eat a beaver”. 😂 Though at the time my misapprehension was because I didn’t understand the slang meaning of “beaver” as much as the slang meaning of “eat.” 🤣
@@Eaten_squid_cake Ya, I was going to condition that with "morally" edible object, but figured a first grader would know you aren't supposed to eat people.
Is it not way simpler to just, say friend because a friend is a living thing, nothing else is a living thing? (I'm not considering egg alive here, most people wouldn't I feel)
It would have been more obvious if the teacher hadn’t picked an adjective that was also a noun. That’s where people got thrown off I believe.
Also, I was explaining the theory of countable items to my dad, who’s a painter, and he brought up that you can have countable silvers, if you’re counting different shades of silver. Thought that was an interesting point!
Yeah, imagine if instead of silver it was blue or red. Much easier, but a good question nonetheless
@@David.77 wdym good question this was a bad question
My first gut instinct was "toothbrush" as it's the only word without a E in it. Question basically depends entirely on the context of the test and lesson.
One really useful tip for stuff like this in school is to never forget what you were just studying before you got the test and what the other questions on the test are about. This is often very important. Tests exist in context.
I used to be VERY good at taking tests because I saw this - and often the answer, or a hint, was in other questions on the test. So i was a genius - on paper...🙄🙃
It used to drive me nuts when teachers asked imprecise questions. Kids usually knew what the teacher meant to ask, but there were other correct answers depending on how you interpreted it.
@@thesoundsmithIt takes something to see meta patterns. (I see a pattern in the test and that pattern repeats in other test -- The pattern is a pattern)
LOL that's so cute why do y'all get tests right after learning smth LOL that's so easy 😂
@@Mongalingalong You have different kinds of testing. An individual point of matter, then an integration test.
So, if you learn fractions, you get a test on how to compare them using some properties, then another one on how to use ratios, then another one on how to add fractions with different denominators, etc.
Then, you get a test where everything is mixed, and you've to be able to find out which tool will give you the faster answer.
That allows students to see their progress but also helps the teacher to see if it was correctly taught or if he needs to do some review. So, one test may include previous points because the student did poorly. It can also be because it's a build-up, and the teacher needs to know if you failed due to not knowing the prerequisites.
Testing, done correctly, is really hard.
I initially thought of silver as a noun given it’s one of the elements.
My answer was friend because the other four are objects in and of themselves (again thinking of silver as the element) whereas friend is a relational concept. In other words, no one is inherently a “friend” but rather is a friend of someone else.
But yeah, these questions are ambiguous and so really one’s rationale behind their answer is more important than the answer itself.
I initially thought of silver as an adjective but then realized it could also be a noun, but then realized that friend that I thought of a noun at first could also be an adjective so I was debating in my head between silver for being the only adjective in a list of nouns, and friend being the only adjective in a list of nouns.
Same
A friend can also be an object.
It’s kind of a trick question since it’s both an adjective and a noun, because “I have a silver bar” uses it as an adjective “I have a bar of silver” uses it as a noun.
You can hold your friend’s hand, but you can’t hold friend in your hand.
Toothbrush is the only one that is a combination of two words. Silver is a chemical element, so in fact it is a noun and an adjective. But since this was a first grade question, I would choose toothbrush, since it is made from two words.
Absent the class context, "egg" seems to fit the question best.
Given this is primarily a math logic channel, the question definitely primed me to look for numerical patterns (I chose "egg"). Consequently, I'm a bit surprised both "egg" and "desk" were not more chosen by the channel's audience.
I chose egg too. It is the only choice that begins with a "vowel" 😉
@@stevenz933 (about to watch) I said egg, only word with an "odd" number of letters. But was also thinking silver, as it is an adjective and the others are nouns. Of course, silver can also be a noun, but was thinking that the teacher might have slipped up and been thinking of it only as an adjective.
I choose Egg too because it's the only one with odd number of letters.
I choosed egg because it was the only edible one unless you consider cannibalism 💀
I also chose egg because it's the only one with an odd number of letters.
I love how we're all overanalysing this first grade question. These questions are always subjective, so as the parent my first response would be to ask what the kid learned about in class that week.
But I initially thought friend because people usually define a noun as a person, place or thing, and friend is a person while all the others are things.
Feel like people are uselessly complicating it, to me at least, all of them are inanimate objects, except for friend, so I would say that would be the odd one out.
@@awesomeishu I taught my kid nouns in first grade, so 🤷♂️
I assumed it was "egg", because it was the only one with an "odd" number of letters. Haven't finished watching the video, no idea if I'm correct(?
@@TX2015I mean, I'm assuming this is just a question to test how you think, so there is no real wrong answer.
silver because these are everyday objects normal people have or interact with, but silver is a rare metal.
Silver is a noun too -- just as every other element in the periodic table is. With the backstory that this was after a lesson on nouns & adjectives, silver makes sense. They should've used a different adjective (color) that isn't also a noun.
I answered "friend" in the poll.
Thanks for this interesting video; I saw this brought up in a segment on a TV show a few days ago. 3 or 4 panelists/guests had answers, and were different.
My thought was that most, if not all, the choices could be backed up as the "odd one out," but I would gravitate toward "friend," because it's the only animate object.
Next, while all of them are nouns, silver is the only one that's not just a noun (chemical element #47; a precious metal), but is also an adjective (color or appearance or composition of the object being modified by it). [Admittedly, both "friend" and "egg" can be used as verbs, but those are kind of nonstandard usages. Come to think of it, "silver" can also be a verb. A telescope maker will silver a mirror for a reflecting telescope, e.g. That usage is actually a carry-over from the time when actual silver was coated onto glass; for many decades now, aluminum has been used, but the process is still called "silvering." Sometimes it's called "aluminizing."]
I liked the other justifications you gave for some of the choices, which I hadn't thought of. Especially the part about square vs triangular numbers, because being a mathematician by schooling, I was kicking myself mentally for not having come up with that.
Which also brings up the interesting point that there are some (∞ly many, in fact) numbers that are both square and triangular, which can be found using the solutions to Pell's Equation for n=8. The first, of course, is 1. The next ones are 36, 1225, ...
Fred
🤓
Tests that ask the student to show their reasoning and/or work are IMO far superior to those that rely on just picking the correct option. By making the student show their way of thinking, you can guide their understanding of the problem and help them build critical reasoning skills.
Yes, yes and yes! I'd give you more than one thumbs-up if I could. The lesson is not about the words or their meanings; it is about learning that questions can have more than one answer; and how to use facts to clearly explain to others how you made your choice. Never too early to start learning the elements of critical thinking and logical argument. Sadly, these skills are in very short supply these days.
The problem with this is you are heavily dependent on the teacher or the person grading to have enough critical thinking skills themselves to properly assess the students work. Not sure about your experience, but I have found very few teachers who possess those skills
While all that is absolutely true, it's also irrelevant because this wasn't that kind of test. This was specifically a grammar test about nouns and there was an intended correct answer. This question was poorly formulated for it's intent.
of couse the problem is that type of question takes as least 10 times more for the teacher to grade.
The problem with that is "what do we do with the information?" If we had given the test on another day, would the result be the same. (Among adults that is not likely.)
I was on team friend because of the object vs concept rationale as well. It's interesting how most people thought that as well. I definitely agree the reasoning is more important than the answer, and I wish more were taught as such.
Same
I focused on friend because a friend is alive and the other words do not refer to anything alive.
@@yvonnetomenga5726 that's a solid reason 🔥
technically, a “desk” is also a concept
@@ctaloni mean, technically, all words are concepts, but thats not helpful in determining the odd one out.
Egg? All the words have an even number of letters except egg.
For a first-grader,
everyday items are friend, egg, desk, thoothbrush nowerdays.
1) Silver would be by itself not an everyday item.
If silver would be replaced with money,
then I would not choose it.
2) Friend would be the only thing "living",
or, to talk to, or receive reactions.
All other items would be passive by itself.
3) Egg could emerge as something new,
transformation to chicken.
All other items would be perceived static / fixed.
4) Toothbrush as only handy tool,
in this case to clean something.
5) Silver for can't be destroyed by fire.
I had ChatGPT answer that question 50 times. It chose "friend" 32 times, "toothbrush" 15 times, and "silver" 3 times. The reasoning for each answer remained consistent throughout. The other two options ("desk" and "egg") were not chosen.
The odd one out is "Friend." The reason is that all the other words (Desk, Toothbrush, Egg, and Silver) are physical objects or tangible items, whereas "Friend" is a conceptual term referring to a relationship between people. The other items are things you can touch or interact with in a tangible way, while a friend is an abstract concept representing a social connection.
The odd one out in this list is "Toothbrush." The reason is that all the other items (Friend, Desk, Egg, Silver) are typically associated with inanimate objects or concepts, while a toothbrush is associated with personal hygiene and is used for a specific purpose related to the human body. The other items are more general and don't have a direct connection to personal care or hygiene.
The word "Silver" is the odd one out. The reason for this is that all the other words (Friend, Desk, Toothbrush, and Egg) are commonly associated with everyday items or concepts, whereas "Silver" is a material. The first four words refer to objects or people, while "Silver" refers to a type of metal.
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It got interesting when I amended the question, telling ChatGPT that this was asked to first graders following a lesson about nouns. With that additional information, ChatGPT answered "friend" 50 out of 50 times. The reasoning remains basically the same:
I would say that "Friend" is the odd one out because it is a person, and the other words are things or objects.
Сразу анек про мужика считающего спички на фабрике вспомнился
ChatGPT did not come up with countable versus uncountable nouns, discrete versus partitive? Lol, fail!
Toothbrush is the only word without an “e” in it
Or the only word that is a composite of two words.
@slavakulishko3771 that was my thought. It's the only compound word.
Very interesting. "Friend" is the one that stood out from the others because of its conceptual nature.
I chose friend, because friend is the only thing that's not actually a item/object. I considered silver to be a noun, due to it being a element and as such, a physical object.
According to me, it is egg as all other words have even number of letters whereas egg has odd number of letters
My answer as well
I thought of egg because it’s the only one that starts with a vowel.
Interesting to see so many ways of looking at the problem than how I did!
guessing before watching:
toothbrush - combination of two words
toothbrush - doesn't contain the letter "e"
toothbrush - double digit letter count
about toothbrush - should be called teethbrush...
silver - not made(/born/hatched)
silver - (single) element
silver - cannot ask "how many"
silver - does not have plural form (silvers)
egg - starts with a vowel
egg - double non-vowel letter
egg - prime letter count
friend - only one with autonomous actions
friend - something you can be
friend - subjective
desk - cannot be singled out, so, therefore, it is singled out! :)
desk - actually... letter count is not a sum of consecutive integers...
--
orange - the only color
--
1 - one divisor
(these are numbers, not words)
6 - doesn't contain the letter "e"
My thought was on which "word" is the odd one out. Not what the word represents, but as a word. So, based on the words themselves, toothbrush had the most unique letters, was a compound word, was the longest. Seemed to be the most unique.
I think with questions like these, you shouldn't think about which has more X or most Y. That would almost never be the intended answer. But what does one word had that the others do not.
Yeah, I would discount anything that relies on one thing being on the end of some sort of spectrum like longest, shortest etc. Equally, the only one without an e is an ok answer but there’s only one with a v so what’s to choose between them, e is kind of an arbitrary choice, why not the other letters, rather than being an important characteristic ? Typically you don’t look for the odd one out you look for the connection between the others. The biggest, while being an outlier, is still connected to the others by having a size and so being on a scale with the others.
Being a compound word seems like a perfectly sensible reason though.
Ye I also picked toothbrush for being a compound word. I think I might be primed towards that answer tho, since my native language has a huge amount of compound words.
That reasoning passed my mind too: since it specifically said "which *word* is the odd one out", we should just look at the properties of the words themselves, and not to the things/concepts that these words represent. So even though "friend" refers to a living being, a human being, a person, or a relation rather than a physical inanimate object, it cannot be the answer to the question based on those arguments alone.
So my choice too was "toothbrush", because you can cut it into two parts that are also English words ("tooth" and "brush"). ("Friend" can also be cut into two parts, "fri" and "end" , but as far as I'm aware, "fri" is not an English word.)
I originally went with friend, as it is perceived more as a concept than as a noun. Silver is a base metal, like gold, so I never considered it as an adjective. I considered desk as the odd choice, since the other four can be held comfortably. Like many others have posted, this is more a test of ability to reason than a quest for the “right” answer.
I think one's native language may influence the answer they give. There are couple of these kind of videos where I see the question in english but think about it in my native language so I am biasing rules and concepts after my language. It often results in totally different answer than is "expected". Simplest example might be if a noun is countable or not.
This was very interesting. It just goes to show that without a frame of reference, any answer is potentially the correct answer.
My first thought is "egg". All the other answers have an even number of letters. And with that hypothesis I looked for extra clues in the question and the word "odd" stands out which reinforces my thought process.
Also, egg begins with a vowel; all others begin with a consonant. Isn't that odd?
Yup, hard to argue against the most literal answer.
Also "egg" is the only word with a descending character (a font symbol that descends below the script baseline, like j, p, q, and y).
I also thought a first-grader might consider the words rather than their meanings. "Egg" makes sense, but I went with "silver" since all the other words end in a pair of consonants.
Silver is also a noun. We don't have silver in our coins anymore (unless you buy collectibles) but it is not just a color. It is element #47.
depending on how obscure things you look for there's always a way to make any option the odd one out. it's desk because it's the only one out of the five that's spelled "desk"
This reminded me of 2 stories my mom told me from my sister's and my kindergarten days. My sister's teacher was concerned about her picking the picture of a mug instead of a glass when asked to circle the 'cup'. The picture of the glass showed the liquid in it, and we were taught by mom that a 'glass' was see-through, hence why she picked the mug as a cup.
The 2nd story is both my sister and I, when asked how do you cook a turkey, both answered the say way (different grades, different years). We said you first have to go out and kill it and pluck the feathers. 😂
I tried to approach it from the perspective of a first grader. I thought the most logical thing for a young child was to look at the words themselves without looking at the meaning, and I came up with egg being the only odd number. The other concepts felt a bit challenging for a first grader to me.
I put friend because I have a toothbrush, a desk, an egg, and a silver ring.
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I also thought of egg but because it is the only word starting with a vowel, the others start with a consonant
Personally I would say friend, and I dunno, I would have thought most first graders could figure out that only one of the things is alive, albeit maybe with some help. And in the context of the recent class, a non-noun standing out would work as well, although the choice of silver specifically broke the question because it is in fact a noun in some contexts
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It’s also the only thing you can eat
This is a great lesson on why context matters… the original question followed a lesson on nouns, so the students would most likely look for nouns in the answer… We see the question in a math video and immediately start squaring words and triangulating letters like there’s no tomorrow… 😅
I thought it was friend as it was the only living thing, I considered the egg as unfertilized egg
I saw this in the thumbnail and at first couldn't see an obvious odd one out, but then I noticed ir was this maths based channel that was posting the question, assumed it to be a mathematical question in some way, and immediately counted the number of letters in each word and came up with egg being the only one with an odd number of letters.
The odd one out was us the whole time.
I immediately knew there'd be reasons to choose any word, because there always is.
But the choice that jumped out at me as the most obvious is 'friend', because all the others are mere objects whereas a friend is a person.
The second one I thought of was silver, because all the others are singular nouns, which silver is not, regardless of whether you take it as a substance or a colour.
The third one I thought of was toothbrush, because it is the only word that isn't aligned with the others 😁
My first guess was "desk" cause it's the only one you don't put in your mouth.
There are many reasons why each of those choices is completely unique amongst the other four. The problem is that you are not given any hint how to prioritize the 'uniqueness' of the choice. For example, desk is unique because it is the only word that describes a container of some sort. One has to be careful how you define a container.
For me "friend" seemed less like a concept and more just a person. My immediate thought wasn't "friend is an abstract concept and can change" but more "all the other options are inanimate items, but this is a person, a human being"
i went with friend because it was the only one that gave me a sense of animacy. I've been watching some videos recently about linguistics, and learned that some languages and conlangs categorize nouns based on animacy. I don't know whether most languages would only categorize friend as animate, i could also see egg very easily being considered animate on second thought.
Yeah, in Russian "friend" is animate while all other words n this list aren't, so maybe that's why I was sure "friend" should be odd one out. But even in English, isn't "friend" (generally) "he" or "she", while all other words are "it"?
cool to see another person with the same answer, and perhaps telling that we both have recently spent time with conlangs haha
Meanwhile I'm here thinking friend because I can put silver, an egg or a toothbrush on a desk but there's no way a friend belongs on top of a desk
i mean i can certainly think of a couple scenario when they do@@someonerandom9939
I thought it was toothbrush because all the other words have a “e” in them.
I chose 'friend' in the poll and I'm sticking with it for the reasons stated in the video. Yes, silver can be an adjective, but I've worked with the metal and to me it's a noun more than an adjective :) I put myself though school thanks to silver, and it's ability to be easily cast and worked to make nice affordable jewelry.
Too Silver something is to use mercury( quicksilver ) to coat glass to make a mirror - it is normally "silvering" but silver with work too
I thought of silver as a noun but as something we can't make. Humans make eggs and the other things but we can't make silver.
@@keriezyAlso silver is a naturally plural noun. You can have "a" or "an" before the others, a toothbrush, an egg, a friend, but you can't have "a silver".
I thought of silver as a noun, but i picked it because it's a stuff not a thing
@@iamdigory "It's a stuff, and not a thing" is actually a very common sense way of describing the difference between an uncountable noun and a countable noun
Another laymans version why desk is the odd one out. all of the other 4 could use desk.
we used to do this at my school. when we did it, they were all the right answer, and you just had to pick one and explain why.
I actually thought it might be egg for a different reason. It was the only one that started with a vowel. It seemed simple enough for a first grader to figure out and I thought it would be more in line with what they would learn.
Also the explanation for it being silver doesn't entirely hold since silver is also a noun, it being an element. But at the same time it's the only one that can be an adjective so that's probably a more accurate way of saying it.
Yea, egg ebviously. Only word with odd number of letters.
My first thought too
I thought egg is food, others are not.
friend is the only word with the letter N so it's the odd one out
toothbrush is the only word with the letter O so it's the odd one out
egg is the only word with the letter G so it's the odd one out
desk is the only word with the letter K so it's the odd one out
silver is the only word with the letter L so it's the odd one out
This is my answer too! ^^
Good question! "Friend" was my first choice because a friend is alive; the rest are inanimate. But the question centers on the "word" and not the things that each word represents. That being said, setting up the criteria for determining "odd-ness" leads to certain answers and eliminates other possibilities. Some bright first-graders there if they came up with some of the other answers and rationales.
Egg could be alive
@@corcorandmTrue, but rarely in most people's lives, and much more rarely than the word silver being used as a noun as well
@@bosstowndynamics5488silver being used as an adjective didn’t come to my mind until it was mentioned in the video. Then again I collect mercury dimes and those are 90% silver. I might be the exception but I personally tend to use the word silver as a noun much more frequently than I use it as an adjective
That was my thought too. It was the only thing with a brain.
I could come up with many reasons for each word to be the answer, then I remembered it was a first grade problem, making it obviously silver.
When I first looked at this I was trying to think like a first grader. Visually looking at it I noticed that toothbrush was there by itself looking so lonely. Friend and egg are even with each other. Desk and silver are even with each other. Toothbrush is right there by itself in the middle with no one to hang out with. Using the term “odd one out” is very deceptive and to me I was looking visually at the question. I still would say toothbrush because I wouldn’t have known what a noun or adjective was until the 2nd grade.
I believe that questions like this should be asked of children more often. The lesson of it -- like another comment said -- is to find your own answer and justify it. There's no point in copying someone else's work; there is no wrong answer as long as you can justify it; and thinking outside the box would be worth actual merit unlike many vaguely-designed questions that appear on tests today. Children need to be encouraged -- and learn how -- to think for themselves.
Yes! I'd give more thumbs-up if I could. Maybe you saw one of my comments which went something like: The lesson is not about the words or their meanings; it is about learning that questions can have more than one answer; and how to use facts to clearly explain to others how you made your choice. Never too early to start learning the elements of critical thinking and logical argument. Sadly, these skills are in very short supply these days.
Except that wasnt the answer and they'd be told they were wrong if they gave another answer besides silver.
@@turnerjazz7872 This question has no "right" or "wrong" answers. And if a teacher said any of the choices was wrong, that teacher needs to get out of the classroom. (See my comment just above.) It is the thinking process that is most important and this is not too much for 1st-graders to tackle. For how to do this, see --->
"THINK LIKE A DETECTIVE" and "THINK LIKE A SCIENTIST," 2023, David Pakman.
@@turnerjazz7872yup, this is the problem with vague questions in general. I'm hopeful that this one made sense relative to the lesson, but unfortunately the question relies on I spoken external data, so any student who missed the class would get the answer wrong.
I'd like to HOPE the teacher would be reasonable in that case and accept a well defended / reasoned answer but I'm sure we all know that doesn't really happen in practice 😂
friend is the only word with the letter N so it's the odd one out
toothbrush is the only word with the letter O so it's the odd one out
egg is the only word with the letter G so it's the odd one out
desk is the only word with the letter K so it's the odd one out
silver is the only word with the letter L so it's the odd one out
my original thought was silver (in this context as a noun). My thought was you encounter friends, desks, eggs, and toothbrushes in your day-to-day life, whereas silver is something „special“ and „expensive“ that you generally wouldn’t encounter every day
Speak for yourself I have silver earrings.
@@cathygrandstaff1957ok. just ok.
I found valid reasons why each was the odd one out, and surprisingly (or not), the reasons I have are different than the ones presented here.
Having taught ESL/EFL to grade school students, it’s quite obvious that silver would be the answer, as generally silver as a color is taught before silver as a noun. Also, learning grammar labels is a big deal, so the kids would be thinking about nouns vs adjectives. Though the idea of countable vs uncountable nouns would also be an acceptable answer depending on their level or what lesson you’re teaching.
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"Why is a raven like a writing desk?" is what this reminded me of (Alice in Wonderland reference). I chose egg, not only for the odd letters, but it is only one that started with a vowel.
“Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!” (answer from Lewis Carroll)
@@THall-vi8cp I thought the answer was: Because there’s a be in both
The answer actually is: Because Poe wrote on both.
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Well, the answer I posted is the answer Lewis Carroll came up with after being pestered for one -- the riddle originally wasn't supposed to have an answer. He also originally spelled _never_ as "nevar" in the answer, which is _raven_ spelled backward.
I do like the Poe answer, though. Quite clever.
A hat tip to you, my friend.@@THall-vi8cp
I thought friend at first because the others are objects and a friend is a person that you play together with, have conversations with. I think that’s most important to children that age.
I think this is a cautionary tale against ambiguous question writing.
Silver is an element. All the other items are compounds.
Strictly speaking none of the items are compounds from a chemistry standpoint because eggs, friends, toothbrushes and desks don't have fixed compositions.
It’s homework aimed at helping the child to practice reasoning. There’s no wrong answer as long as they give a reasonable reason
My mind went straight to silver, not because it could be an adjective, but because, as a noun, it's the only uncountable one.
If you want to get technical, silver is the only one not being a noun is false. A noun is a person, place, or thing. And silver is both a color (which is what I am guessing the teacher meant by), but it's also a metal, which is a thing. So silver is a thing, which counts as a noun. So the teacher is wrong since she did not specify that she was talking about the color and not the metal.
Wow! I thought "friend" was so OBVIOUSLY the correct answer, and I was shocked you were even discussing this. I also have to admit surprise that it apparently wasn't the obvious answer for many. HOWEVER, I thought silver had to refer to the element and never considered it as a color. If I wanted to make such a test and use a color, I would have chosen UNAMBIGUOUS colors, like red, green, etc. THE MAIN PROBLEM, IMO, is that this particular sort of question for kids can only STIFLE their intelligence and creativity, IMO (IF, they were "told" that silver was the "correct" answer).
Of course there is no "correct answer." The lesson should not be about the words, their spellings or their meanings; it is about learning that questions can have more than one answer; and how to use facts to clearly explain to others how you made your choice. Never too early to start learning the elements of critical thinking and logical argument. Sadly, these skills are in very short supply these days.
I especially like your thoughts on "silver." I've always had trouble thinking of silver as a color. I could never find it on a color wheel or chart nor anywhere on the electromagnetic spectrum. Can't find any way to create it using the colors that are on the spectrum nor the colors of pigments. Needs a "lustrous metallic sheen" according to the dictionary. Where can I find some of this stuff?
Silver as an element is still an uncountable noun. It is a measurable noun, but an uncountable noun.
If you are measuring silver, you are counting grams, or whatever measurement you're using.
Also, if you use silver as a currency (e.g. 3 silver and 4 gold) then you're only using silver as an adjective and dropping the actual noun, which could be 'coin', as in silver coin. Therefore you're counting coins, not silvers.
My concept behind choosing "friend" was that it was the only animate choice, as people usually have other people as friends. Eggs don't move on their own until hatching, toothbrush doesn't move without someone holding it, silver doesn't move unless it's a commodity price, and desks don't walk except in an earthquake.
nice. im in the toothbrush camp. this is a good reason why this question includes, explain your answer. any of them could be correct, depending on your thought process.
Presh: going into semantics and technicalities to get the odd word
Me: toothbrush is the odd one out because it's the only one without an e in it
I went with egg, because egg is an odd number. However, I thing to learn from this example is that almost all of the "here is an example of an impossible grade school problem" that you see on the internet are actually extremely trivial once you know what the kids are studying in school. If you had began the video with "a child that was studying the difference between nouns and adjectives was given the following question" the whole mystery of the video falls apart.
Definitely a case where the context of what was being studied applies. Looking blind, my first thought was toothbrush because it's a compound word. My assumption being they might have been studying that rather than nouns vs adjectives.
I chose silver. Even if you consider silver a noun, it's an uncountable noun, while the other four are countable. You can have "a" or "an" before the others, a toothbrush, an egg, a friend, but you can't have "a silver".
@@japanpanda2179 As a D&D player, you certainly can have "a silver" when it refers to the coin. Most dictionaries also list a form of it as countable noun when referring to silver medals like in the Olympics.
Although that is I guess some kind of "colloquial noun" (not sure if there's a word for that) where an adjective gets turned into the noun. Like "a fifth" of alcohol. Or "a double" of alcohol. (I would really like to come up with a non-alcohol example so I don't appear like an alcoholic...)
When I answered in the community post, I think I chose toothbrush for the same reason. But when watching this video, having forgotten my answer, I chose friend.
First grade could also be animate vs inanimate objects, in which case "friend" is an odd one out.
It also was the word that jumped out to me immediately.
@@isaac_marcus I suppose "The good, the bad and the ugly" would be a good non-alcoholic example of such type of words ;)
Context is king. Also, my 5th grade son watching this with me during the reasoning for DESK: "Yeah, except THIS IS A FIRST GRADE PROBLEM."
To me, toothbrush jumps out, as it is the only word composed of two ideas.
Yet the teacher will do exactly this and mark the other four answers as incorrect. This is what pissed me off when I was a kid. When I’d point this out to teachers I was told “well that’s not the answer I wanted” and was put in punishment for saying things like “no you need to write clearer questions then”. No wonder kids get disenfranchised at school when they are told they are “wrong” yet as we’ve just discussed 75% of respondents disagreed with the “correct” answer, yet gave a valid answer.
The teachers you describe should not be teachers.
Same as me at school. I assume it's to prepare you for a world full of idiots!
The UA-cam poll numbers reflect the related demographics of the responding people. 49% don't have any friends, 23% had no money (silver), 15% hadn't brushed their teeth, 11% don't like to eat eggs, but only 3% weren't at or near a desk when they responded...
I first picked egg, because it started with a vowel and then, looking at the other words because it was odd. Then looking a the question and the word odd I was convinced that was also the intended answer. When hearing desk was the least common choice I tried to come up with a good reason for desk and discovered it was the only word that shared all of its letters with at least one of the other words. It also happens to be the only one I'm touching (and seeing) right now. By the way, even in your mathematical explanation for desk egg is an odd one, if only because of the word itself defying the angular shape of the category choices.
If I was in a class where we were learning about nouns and then I was given this question I probably would’ve picked silver. I would recognize the other 4 are obviously nouns all the time, whereas sliver isn’t exclusively a noun, it can be an adjective too. But without that context I picked friend thinking of the metal silver being a physical object while the only one that isn’t is a friend
After all the different answers on the poll, I cant belive this is a first grade question 😂
There's a surprising number of examples floating around on the internet of questions written by teachers which were either outright wrong or nowhere near as specific as they thought, often in the form of test answers marked wrong even when the child gave an answer that any reasonable person would agree is correct
Context is key. After learning about nouns, just about everyone would choose silver because it can be a noun or an adjective, whereas the the remaining four are squarely nouns.
First grade is a great time to teach kids that sometimes there isn't a singular clear right answer, and to encourage kids to think about how to defend their choices in the classroom. It's a good discussion question, not a good test question.
I thought that toothbrush was the odd one out since it was the only word on the list that's a compound word. A compound word is a word that combines two or more words into a bigger word, the words "tooth" and "brush" are smaller words that can be combined into the word "toothbrush".
This was my thought since a first grader could be learning about compound words.
Same
All I saw was the picture thingy before you click on the video, but the answer was toothbrush because it's the only one that doesn't have an e.
with the context that it was an elementary school question, my first thought was "toothbrush" because it's a compound noun while the other ones are just regular nouns
but "silver" also makes sense because it can be used as an adjective
I always view these as exercises in lateral thinking. There is no ONE correct answer. As long as you can give a logical reason for your choice, your answer is correct. I will add that if the intent of the question was to reinforce a lesson on nouns vs. other parts of speech, "silver" is a poor choice for one of the options. Obviously silver can be used as an adjective, but it's also used as a noun. It depends on context. At a first grade level, if you want to lead them to a nouns vs. adjectives (or whatever part of speech) solution, you should pick a word without ambiguous or multiple uses.
It's such a strange choice for an adjective too, there's so many that would come to mind before it for most people if you asked them to think of a random adjective
As I've learned, the younger the target audience, the more assumptions get made on their thinking, knowledge, or frame of reference. Like logic tables that require differentiating boy and girl names to deduce the answer
If they were learning about the different types of nouns, then silver might have been an intentional choice. You can have a single friend or desk, but silver is used as a mass noun, like sand. You can have one thing made of silver or one silver atom, or even refer to a silver coin as "one silver," but you can't have "one silver."
Desk is the only word that lacks an etymological route from old english or german, it is unique in its latin origin. I would also say triangle number is a bit of a stretch as you can design a taylor series to miss and hit any given integer
Although "toothbrush" was my first/immediate choice, I afterward also noticed that "desk" is the only word that doesn't look like its translation in Dutch ( _vriend_ = friend , _ei_ = egg , _tandenborstel_ = toothbrush , _zilver_ = silver ; _bureau_ = desk ), even though English and Dutch are both Germanic languages. I was unaware though that _desk_ has a Latin origin.
If the argument "triangle number of letters" doesn't count, then the argument "odd number of letters" (for _egg_ ) doesn't count either.
@@yurenchu In engish you can sit on any side of a desk (argueble, is a desk a table, though not all tables are desks) . A Bureau (or writing desk) has a leaf that folds down and normally forms part of the enclosure when not in use)
@@highpath4776 Yeah, they are both called _bureau_ in Dutch. And there is no Dutch word that looks like the English word _desk_ , as far as I'm aware.
My answer would be silver, the reason is that other things are like kind of going in a cycle, for going to school, like first you wake up and brush your teeth, and most commonly used thing for keeping our teeth white is a "toothbrush", then before going to school, you would have breakfast, and the most common breakfast is probably eating an "egg", then you go to school, where you obviously meet with a "friend" or friends, then when like the first period is, you sit on your seat and a "desk" is definitely an essential thing you would use there or i can say that it would definitely be there, right? It's like in every classroom of a school, but "metal" is the only thing that's not coming in the cycle, maybe the teacher is teaching about a periodic table, or something other similar to metal, but necessarily it wouldn't happen, cuz it is not gonna be happening while others are most common things in this cycle, yeah guys that's what I thought made sense for metal to be the odd one out😅
I thought it was a toothbrush because toothbrush does not contain an "e".
Also, silver can be used as a noun. (Example: He has 20 pieces of silver)