{"id":36259,"date":"2017-02-21T08:36:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T13:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=36259"},"modified":"2017-02-21T09:34:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T14:34:54","slug":"fifth-grade-kid-asks-police-for-help-on-his-homework-and-their-response-was-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/fifth-grade-kid-asks-police-for-help-on-his-homework-and-their-response-was-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Grade Kid Asks Police For Help On His Homework And Their Response Was Awesome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Molly Draper found out her 10-year-old daughter, Lena, messaged the local police department on Facebook asking for help with her math homework, and she couldn&#8217;t believe it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>She was also surprised by the fact that they actually responded.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lena sent a message to the Marion, Ohio, Police Department\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marionpd\/posts\/1339355292792494\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> last week, explaining that she was having trouble with her fifth-grade math assignment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instead of turning her away, Draper says Marion Police Dept. Lt. B.J. Gruber, the officer who runs the page, simply responded, \u201cOk with what?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmolly.draper%2Fposts%2F10109124209637665&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"670\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Click Next To Keep Reading!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is the exchange:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lena | \u201cWell I don\u2019t understand (8+29)x15.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Officer | \u201cDo the numbers in the parenthesis first so in essence it would be 37 x 15,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lena | \u00a0\u201cOk now if I had this (90+27) + (29+15) x 2. Which one would I do first?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Officer | \u201cTake the answer from the first parenthesis plus the answer from the second parenthesis and multiply that answer times two.\u201d \u201cWork left to right doing the work inside the parenthesis first.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cOrder of operations&#8230; PEMDAS! (Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication &amp; Division, Addition and Subtraction). For future reference,\u201d one Facebook user said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lena&#8217;s mother was very impressed and her Facebook post about the interaction has started to go viral.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Like\u00a0\u272a Share\u00a0\u272a\u00a0Be\u00a0Awesome<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (7.4.18) simplesharebuttons.com --><div id=\"ssba-classic-2\" class=\"ssba ssbp-wrap left ssbp--theme-1\"><div style=\"text-align:left\"><span class=\"ssba-share-text\">Like it? 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Instead of turning her away, Draper says Marion Police Dept. Lt. B.J. Gruber, the officer who runs the page, simply responded, \u201cOk with what?\u201d Click Next To Keep Reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,29,5843,619,4],"tags":[834,6305,739],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36274,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259\/revisions\/36274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36259"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}