Maddie's Math

"Maddie, Maddie, Maddie,..." I said as I shook my head and hid my grin behind a sheet of paper.
"What, Mom?"

"Sweetie, I think you should probably fill in the circle next to the cone or at least circle it. That's what it means when it says, 'Mark the cone.'... They don't usually mean for you to name it."
"Oh. Then why doesn't it say, 'Circle the cone'?"

She circled it in red after our conversation.