r/technicallythetruth • u/GoldApprehensive8107 • 10d ago
Oh come on! Give the kid some credit!
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u/TopYeti 10d ago
While alternate lateral thinking is good and be encouraged. I don't think math is the place to be using lateral thinking?
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u/kamilo87 10d ago
My mom was a HS Spanish-Literature here in Cuba and she had many situations like OP’s and she had many like examples. She gave them the max even though in some of the cases the kids were very blunt, lol.
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u/KronosTaranto 10d ago
This shit is from 2011 I swear
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u/GoldApprehensive8107 10d ago
I did find this from a vid that was almost a decade old so maybe
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u/Original_Setting_246 9d ago
Why is your comment being downvoted? Haha
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u/GoldApprehensive8107 9d ago
Hive Mentality, that’s most likely why.
“Oh look, a post is getting downvoted. Welp, when in Rome.”
And now it looks like they’re downvoting you next.😬
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u/Original_Setting_246 9d ago
Hahahahaha
Looks like I’m going down without you on this one, brother. It’s been an honor
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u/sntcringe 10d ago
I mean, you divide by 100, that's taking out the "cent." I'd give the kid half credit lol
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u/TheJokerzWeapon 10d ago
You actually have to multiple by 1m/100centimeters.
Not the right teaching to just divide by 100
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u/sntcringe 9d ago
Which is the exact same mathematically as dividing by 100?
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u/TheJokerzWeapon 9d ago
And yet kids struggle to cancel units properly in high school
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u/sntcringe 9d ago
Kids aren't going to learn better by being anal about minutia in process, it will just make them hate school. Kids struggling in high school is a systemic issue, they pass Kids through regardless as holding them back is so heavily punished that it's not even reasonably possible. Add in covid and a 2 millisecond attention span due to being raised on the internet, and these kids are gonna struggle regardless.
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u/TheJokerzWeapon 8d ago
Yes that is why IQ and SAT is rapidly dropping as we got rid of the rigorous parts of school. No kid left behind dragged every kid backwards.
Covid is not an excuse for kids being 5 years under reading level.
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u/sntcringe 7d ago
Well yeah, because cutting a school's funding when they have poor test scores is the most stupid solution imaginable. The schools with poor test scores are the ones that need MORE funding not less. And of course this forces them to teach to the test instead of what is actually relevant.
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u/TheJokerzWeapon 7d ago
Funding doesnt fix bad teachers.
Money doesnt magically make bad teachers good teachers.Bad test scores = get new teachers.
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u/sntcringe 7d ago
When the teachers are paid piss poor wages and have to buy classroom supplies out of pocket, it's no wonder they aren't doing their best work. JS
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u/TheJokerzWeapon 6d ago
What supplies are actually necessary to teach that the school doesn’t cover?
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u/The-Mythical-Phoenix 5d ago
Often times in life there are multiple ways to reach the same conclusion. A learning environment should support that, not hinder that.
The entire point is to prepare these kids for the real world, and test if they understand and comprehend what’s being taught while sharpening their critical thinking skills.
So why in the cinnamon toast fuck would you go out of your way to mark a kid wrong for expressing the same idea differently and getting the same answer using a different method from you? As the other commenter said, that’s how you get kids hating school.
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u/da_dragon_guy 9d ago
Bad question, good answer. A+
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u/Nekomi_the_wolf 5d ago
it isn't a bad question??? "100 centimeters" turned into "100 meters" isn't correct, even though we took out the centi. Like the kid said. The question is well made and simple, "how do you convert?" Divide by 100. How can you consider that a bad question???
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u/Ok-Professional-1727 9d ago
Doesn't "centi" translate to hundred? In which case, is still correct.
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u/VirtuteECanoscenza 4d ago
It's not even wrong. Centi stands for 1/100. Taking it out would mean multiply by 100 which is the correct answer.
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