trying to help lil DTD prepare for some upcoming testing & I have to ......

[dirtytoeddawg]

admit 3rd grade is whipping my ass. I truly have a hard time with the way the questioning is structured. Very abstract, they seem to seek opinions & feelings about certain things rather than a black & white question & answer. So many of the questions could have multiple correct answers and the math is absurd. Not quoting but a question as follows wouldn't suprise me.:

5 x 5 = 25 Why?

Just frustrates me and it's quite hard as a parent to comprehend how to tackle this line of thinking. Hes a straight A kid anyway, so maybe I should just stay out of the way and not F him up.

This post was edited on 4/8 2:58 PM by dirtytoeddawg

 

[Ty TyDawg]

Because if you add 5 5s together you get 25. Multiplication is

a shortcut to adding. Or, because, by god I said it was.

 

[ClyoDawg]

Does that question really frustrate you?

That's a shame

 

[Ty TyDawg]

For a third grader it would be and I imagine he is looking at it

through his son's eyes.

 

[Koogan]

I've heard the same from a buddy of mine. He's a...

...Phd and a college professor, but he can't figure out what is being asked on many of the test questions his 9 year old son brings home from school.

 

[dirtytoeddawg]

Re: Does that question really frustrate you?

It frustrates me because it's pointless. 5x5= 25

Period end of sentence, it is what it is. What's the point in discussing the merits or the why of a purely black & white truth?

What truly bothers me is that in meetings with his teacher to discuss the upcoming testing she explained that many questions will have multiple possibilities for correctness, that some answers may be closer or further from correctness than others, but still correct none the less.

I just shook my head and said ok.

 

[ClyoDawg]

Seems a very appropriate question for a 3rd grader ...solve the

Problem and say how you solved it

 

[Ty TyDawg]

You missed it. They gave the answer, then said why?***

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[ClyoDawg]

Ok, slightly different but still ok...I guess...

Here's the answer....tell me how you'd get that answer ..... Seems kinda lame

 

[Ty TyDawg]

If I were the teacher, I would want to know your capacity to think

not that you could add or multiply.

 

[SkinnyinGA]

What about the square root of...

6

 

[Ty TyDawg]

2.44948974278***

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[dirtytoeddawg]

Re: Seems a very appropriate question for a 3rd grader ...solve the

Wtf do you mean explain how you got it.

5x5 = 25

No fugging explanation necessary. The "why" is stupid and a complete waste of time to bother with. May as well ask why 1=1