I know they aren't teaching them math, grammar, spelling, or handwriting. Just what the heck are they teaching them?
When I was at school about 50 years ago, we had a maths lesson, at the end it was handed in, and was marked wrong, did it again, still the same answer, again and again, always coming up with the same result. Had to do it for home work, still the same result, my mother worked it out and got the same answer, turns out the answer in the back of the book that teacher was working from was wrong. You'd think that if most of the kids in the class were getting a similar answer, the teacher would realise something was wrong?????
One of the reasons I hated school.
Kryn
When I was at school about 50 years ago, we had a maths lesson, at the end it was handed in, and was marked wrong, did it again, still the same answer, again and again, always coming up with the same result. Had to do it for home work, still the same result, my mother worked it out and got the same answer, turns out the answer in the back of the book that teacher was working from was wrong. You'd think that if most of the kids in the class were getting a similar answer, the teacher would realise something was wrong?????
One of the reasons I hated school.
Kryn
That's pretty sad ... why couldn't the teacher work the problem out themselves and figure out that the textbook had a misprint?
When I was at school about 50 years ago, we had a maths lesson, at the end it was handed in, and was marked wrong, did it again, still the same answer, again and again, always coming up with the same result. Had to do it for home work, still the same result, my mother worked it out and got the same answer, turns out the answer in the back of the book that teacher was working from was wrong. You'd think that if most of the kids in the class were getting a similar answer, the teacher would realise something was wrong?????
One of the reasons I hated school.
Kryn
That's pretty sad ... why couldn't the teacher work the problem out themselves and figure out that the textbook had a misprint?
My math teach would have and he rarely worried about the final answer.. he always graded on the steps in the problem... his contention was if you got all the steps right, the answer was automatic. If you got all the steps right, you could get credit for the problem and only a small discredit for a wrong answer. We also took open book tests most of the time... he felt that it was more important that you learned the process... in real life, you will most often have reference materials to use.
I grew up and was in school when the tests were just coming into vogue... in those days they were called achievement tests and you didn't know about them until the day of the test.
Teacher's texts come with errata sheets that usually correct misprints and incorrect answers found in the back of the text. If they missed one, typically some teacher would find it and they would send out another errata sheet. One year we had newly revised and issued texts in math and we ran into a problem that had the wrong answer in the text...our teacher (who was a math major in college) worked the problem and got the same answer we did and sent the correction to the text book publisher.When I was at school about 50 years ago, we had a maths lesson, at the end it was handed in, and was marked wrong, did it again, still the same answer, again and again, always coming up with the same result. Had to do it for home work, still the same result, my mother worked it out and got the same answer, turns out the answer in the back of the book that teacher was working from was wrong. You'd think that if most of the kids in the class were getting a similar answer, the teacher would realise something was wrong?????
One of the reasons I hated school.
Kryn
That's pretty sad ... why couldn't the teacher work the problem out themselves and figure out that the textbook had a misprint?
It's a mess and will get worse think of this....the next generation of teachers will be coming from this generation of students.....