exam 02 my first common core student failed the math

[TWPonKubuntu]

Strange you should mention witchcraft. Yesterday I watched a video clip of a South African Social Justice Warrior (yes, they are everywhere) demanding that "Western" science should be abandon in favor of Witchcraft!
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That would be the guy who couldn't calculate trajectory, but can throw rocks accurately at 30 yards. I hear he passed the class "Spells 101" with three (count 'em THREE) gold stars and an "atta boy" from the school principal.

I though Common Core teaching was unique to the USA?

[woodsmoke]

Woodsmoke received a message that I did not have enough words in his reply! lol

Wednesday afternoon recess will be reserved for burning at the stake all of those caught knowing too much...

ROTFL!!

Re ebonics, have you listened to what "language" is being used by those in their teens and twenties? I'm not talking about "scat mouth" or "potty mouth" but rather a serious inability to converse in plain and simple language. We used to call this "plain english" but that term is no longer allowed either. Habla usted Espanol? Sprech si Deutsche?

I completely agree about it, in and of itself, NOT "being vulgar" it was "originally" a spontaneous building of community. I don't think that a bunch of gangs sat around and made it up to be exclusive. now yes, I am sure that SOME of them did, but for the average ebonics "kid" I think that it was just a way to be "cool".

Hmmm what about the "communty language" of the "beatnicks"? The simple thing of "snapping their fingers" instead of "applaud" a musician because it was all about "being different" and "being cool" and "being...understated"

These things have always come and gone, but to give them the stamp of approval by "government / buraucracy" is much different.

It's no wonder that employers are buying robots... Even adults cannot do the simplest business transactions: "Would you like to supersize those fries?" "Yo dude, you give me a franklin and we gets you two tubmans in change".

LOL YEP..... BEFORE the $15 dollar an hour was enacted in California by about a half a year....in our fair little village.............NOT IN THE METROPOLITAN CENTER within a ten minute drive....

The very first "robot" ordering devices literally were rolled out at one of our McDees... ( yes there were others but I was astounded by it being here ).. it offered a lot of "new / fresh" stuff and WAS NOT USER FRIENDLY....really the initial ordering seemed to work well, but to change something and finally get to the pay submit screen, you paid at the counter" just did not work well.

I happen to know a woman who OWNS three mcdonalds actual buildings, and she started by flipping burgers, I used to dance with her at ballroom things, she was single and looking for a tall dark and handsome, and Facebook messaged her and she replied............ and this is the truth...

"Well, the owner figured that if the things could work THERE then they would work ANYwhere! lol Not because the customers are "stupid" but because the place is just INTENSE in terms of "flowthrough."

A student that I had was in class when the devices were installed and I asked him..........privately........... what was going to happen to jobs.....and he said..........discreetly,............ that they were all assured that nobody would be fired, ever but that if the devices worked that there would be fewer new hires, but, that the chance for moving up quickly, obviously improved and thus, for people who did well, they got increased pay..

Try telling an eighteen year old that the trajectory of the projectile needs to be calculated using its initial vector velocity and the altitude relative to the target. If you don't show your calculations in correct mathematical notation, you don't pass the test...

Right it is all about 'cueing" the student, I spend the first three weeks just on math, and also, the "cues" of words that are associated with different problem and the math.

Here is a simple example,

IN TEXTBOOKS..............NOT "out in science"......BUT IN TEXTBOOKS...

the terms "variable" and "control" are ASSOCIATED with............the scientific metheod. ....MOST textbooks really do not use the terms much in the latter part of the text because the texts are having to cram all the stuff that students are supposed to memorize on the book...

IN TEXTBOOKS....... the terms "independent variable" and "dependent variable" are ASSOCIATED with...."graphing"... and then again, dropped for the previously stated reason.

It took me YEARS .........i mean YEARS............ to realize "why it was" that students just seemed to get the three "variable" terms mixed up on later exams, until I actually had a student, during an exam, come up to the desk and quietly ASK .........cannot remember the particular question....... about the terms and............I almost fell out of my chair!!

I immediately stopped the exam and told the students the correct answers and then explained what had just occurred to me...

I was just ........it was.........."if I had known I'd have had a V-8!! " moment...

Since then, after I have "cued" the students on the terminology I very explicitely say something like that "In terms of testing questions I will preface the question with something like..."when we are discussing graphs.." or "when we are discussing the steps of the scientific method..."

Yep, i agree completely...............

Good way to get yourself shot on the way home after school.

ROTFL or ........gulp..........not....

woodveryrelevantobservationsTWPsmoke

[Snowhog]

That's because you quoted everything, including your response(s) to what you were quoting. Quoted content isn't counted in the number of words in a post/reply, so a post that has nothing in it but quoted content has a zero word count. Your closing signature, which is a running statement, counts as only one word, and one word isn't enough 'words' for a post.

[TWPonKubuntu]

That's because you quoted everything, including your response(s) to what you were quoting. Quoted content isn't counted in the number of words in a post/reply, so a post that has nothing in it but quoted content has a zero word count. Your closing signature, which is a running statement, counts as only one word, and one word isn't enough 'words' for a post.

Dang!

[ I had to add this to count as a post ]