Doctors back creative China boy penalised for using medical diagnosis in maths test

Doctors in China have united behind a primary schoolboy who was penalised for answering a mathematics question with a medical diagnosis.

The boy’s mother, who uses the name @Xiaojun on Douyin, posted his test paper on the social media platform.

The question referred to a graphic showing a person’s temperature dropping from 39.5 to 36.7 degrees Celsius over a three-day period.

“What information can you get from the graphic?” it asked.

The boy, whose name was not revealed, answered: “The patient is about to recover.”