Differential equations free fall application

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A friend and I are having troubles setting up our differential equation for a free fall. The problem says this:

A body of a mass "m" falls from a certain height with a velocity "v". During the fall, the force due to air resistance is proportional to the square of the speed. Find the equation that represents its movement.

I think the differential equation should look like this:

$$m \frac{dv}{dt} = -mg + kv^2$$

But he thinks it should look like this:

$$mx'' - (x')^2 = 0$$

Which just does not make sense to me, since I don't think it would be a second order differential equation.