Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[Mojochi]

Money flies you door, when love flies innuendo.

 

[Finn]

^ Here you go.

While that's not the best written article, I could see that it's more about how the teachers have their students show their work. Do some research.

 

[Worf factor9]

Do some research.

Perhaps you would do it for us, so We do Not have to show our Work?

 

[Finn]

Perhaps you would do it for us, so We do Not have to show our Work?

No

 

[Worf factor9]

No

No sense of humor.

 

[scotpens]

Money flies you door, when love flies innuendo.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

 

[JD]

^ Here you go.

OK, I'm all for getting rid of racism, but that is just bizarre.

I am not an educator, so I admit that I haven't really spent any time researching anti-racist mathematics / anti-bias curriculum. But there are expert educators who are coming up with these curricula, so presumably the new curriculum would still be capable of teaching math, and if it is doing so in an anti-racist fashion, that can only be good, right? The more children who are able to succeed academically, the better, even if the subject matter is not necessarily taught the same way in which we were taught when we were that age.

And I'm sorry, but... I had never heard of that source you linked to before just now, but they are carrying an op-ed, linked to on their main page, called "Is the 'Great Reset' setting the stage for the Antichrist?", so I'm not really inclined to regard them as a credible, impartial news source.

Wow, that definitely changes my perspective on the article.

The Snopes.com entry on the claim.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/education-oregon/

What the material from the promoted site said:
"Math teachers ask students to show work so that teachers know what students are thinking, but that centers the teacher’s need to understand rather than student learning. It becomes a crutch for teachers seeking to understand what students are thinking and less of a tool for students in learning how to process. Thus, requiring students to show their work reinforces worship of the written word as well as paternalism."

As someone who taught Computer Networking at the High School level, I think that is utter bullshit. I wasn't interested in "what they were thinking" when requiring them to show their work but in whether they could prove that they had mastered the skills they were required to learn.

OK, that makes sense, and I can see what they're actually saying now, and I can get behind that. It's not so much about it being racist, it's more just about making it easier for students to communicate, which I can get behind.

 

[Kor]

I wish teachers in my school days had been more open to alternate ways of demonstrating how a student arrived at a solution to a math problem. There were lots of times when I could get the right answer but I just couldn't express my thought process using the strict "show your work" method. On the other hand, when I forced myself to step through that strict process, I would invariably get confused somewhere along the way and end up getting the wrong answer.

Kor

 

[BK613]

As I said before, a lot of times students are being tested on the technique itself and not on getting the "right answer." Sometimes the testing is on using the technique under study and not some other technique (example: using the quadratic formula and not using factoring.) And messing up while showing your work is a feature of the process and not a bug in that it allows for error correction. Was it a PITA? Sure.

Hell, as an instructor, it would have been easier for me to grade quizzes and exams where showing the work was not required. Checks by the rights and big ol' Xs by the wrongs. But that would have actually been me failing my students....

 

[JD]

Insomniac Games gave me my first like on Twitter yesterday, after I commented about how excited I am for their next Ratchet & Clank game.

 

[BK613]

^

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Logged into my store's website and there was a button on the page that said:

YODEL

So I yodeled.

 

[JD]

It's always amazes me how you can see something over and over and over again, and miss something, and then out of nowhere it can hit you.
I was out shopping this morning and I saw latest Crash Bandicoot game, Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, and I suddenly realized the double meaning of the title, after seeing it over and over again online and in stores.
I had just been reading the title as a reference to the fact that it's about time travel, but then when I saw it today, I realized it's also a reference to the fact that it's been 22 years since the 3rd Naughty Dog game. There have been other games since then, but this one was intended to be a follow up to that one, and ignored all of the games since then.

 

[Velocity]

I wish teachers in my school days had been more open to alternate ways of demonstrating how a student arrived at a solution to a math problem. There were lots of times when I could get the right answer but I just couldn't express my thought process using the strict "show your work" method. On the other hand, when I forced myself to step through that strict process, I would invariably get confused somewhere along the way and end up getting the wrong answer.

Kor

I always thought that my teachers wanted us to show our work to rule out those who just copied the answers from their neighbors without actually knowing how to get there on their own. I always struggled with math because I missed long division (among other concepts) due to having measles for several weeks and then mumps. I was struggling to catch up for a long time. And I admit I wasn't above copying answers from others at times.

 

[Worf factor9]

having measles for several weeks and then mumps.

Been there, had them. And chicken pox too.


Sweating out and breaking a fever is a bitc....

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I exaggerate more than anyone in the whole world.

 

[Worf factor9]

I exaggerate more than anyone in the whole world.

Wanna bet?

 

[Velocity]

We saw a Porta-potty today with a sign on it that said, The Royal Flush. One doesn't really, tho, but still kind of funny. And unexpected in a Target parking lot.

 

[Worf factor9]

a sign on it that said, The Royal Flush.

Catchy name/signage.

in a Target parking lot.

Well, I always Hope to be "on Target."

 

[BK613]

Well, I always Hope to be "on Target."

"We aim to please. You aim too, please."