Baffling maths question aimed at 9-year-olds so hard adults can’t work it out

A tricky maths question involving a number of squares and plus and minus signs left some adults advising children to ‘refuse’ to answer it in protest of ‘poor structure’A tricky maths question involving a number of squares and plus and minus signs left some adults advising children to ‘refuse’ to answer it in protest of ‘poor structure’