IronDonkey

Once Kawakami and Hatsumi have passed away, ninjas will forever cease to exist.

That's what they want you to think.

Getting points is not a reward for a right answer. It's a consequence of a right answer. There is no judgement or personal opinion or generosity involved. Right answer implies points. Anything else is dishonest.

Answering the question as written is not playing language games. It is answering the question. If your question allows answers that don't demonstrate what you want, then that means that you suck at language, not that your student is playing games. If the student is playing games as well, well students are allowed to have fun, and the screw up is still yours.

The language is very clear and the answers absolutely meet the requirement. The teacher does not get to withhold points because they're embarrassed that they wrote a crappy question.

It's not rewarding. It's assigning points based on the completion of the task. This is math, it does not have to be warm and fuzzy touchy feely nonsense with room for interpretation. If you can't write clear instructions for a math problem, that is on you. If you cannot communicate your expectations to your students, that is on you. This problem would be incredibly easy to redo so that this answer was not allowed.

Ask the question you want the answer to. If you can't think of a good way to ask your question to get the answer you want, ask of a different question covering the same concepts. If you can't do that, then maybe you shouldn't be writing math exams.

Yeah, sure, it's for a kid. But even for kids - especially, in fact - it's important to stick by what you say. And that test question says "write a number with a 3 in the 10s place" or whatever, which they did.

Basic use of language is fine. When you're teaching you define what it means to "solve" or "provide the answer to" 1 1 = _. For a young kid, this is through examples, and later on it might be with an explicit written definition.

And then the question says "solve the following", which does not mean "write any true statement", and so excludes 1 1 = 1 1 as a correct answer.

Yeah sure, the kid is probably being a smart ass in this case. So? It's ok for a kid to pull one over on you occasionally. Do better with the language next time, and it won't happen again.

Exam questions should be designed so that answers (that follow any instructions) demonstrate understanding. If they are not, that's the exam's fault, not the student's, and so should have no impact on the grade.

In this case, the exam could verify understanding by either asking additional questions (in the number 123, what digit is in the tens place), and/or by modifying the existing questions to require circling the correct place or not using the specified number outside that place. But regardless, if an answer is correct, then it is correct.

I'd agree that it's perfectly fine for a teacher to follow up with the student to make sure they know what they were expected to know. But they should not make the exam score itself dependent on the follow up.

The exam is over, the questions and answers were what they were, the student should not have to worry that they will have to continually resit exams as teachers decide that they didn't like the questions that they asked.

I agree a fair amount - I've been aggressively blocking communities far more than I expected. Seems like many are focused on being anti-something rather than pro something.

I will say, that's one thing I miss about the default subs reddit had. A few were annoying and I unsubscribed, but most were inoffensive and mildly entertaining.

So my reddit experience was "scroll default subs, rarely subscribe to a niche sub, go to niche sub directly sometimes".

Whereas here I'm scrolling all, and more and more edgy anti-capitalism or angry atheist or anti whatever communities that I'm not interested in keep popping up every day, and I keep blocking them.

Don't get me wrong, it's still entertaining and informative. But I'm hoping to eventually craft a subscribed list of communities that's both a) not just an echo chamber for what I believe, but also b) isn't likely to have randos go off on rants against fairly normal things that just barely tangentially related to the topic at hand.

Hope I get time soonish. But until then, I feel you.

I know a fair number of pre-Trump conservatives who voted for Biden. I'm not sure how many of them would vote for the more out there Democrats. Of course, I also don't know how significant of a voting bloc they are.

Strongly disagree. The memories themselves are nice. We should be able to remember the past for it's own sake, without worrying about the future and what it will involve.

Windows 11. It works, all my stuff works, it doesn't bug me, and I don't have to fiddle with it for other things to work.

Did the article actually say he accepted with thumbs up before? Thought it just said he'd accepted via text.

She's kind of a murderous demon monster though. Lilith in charge of sanctuary does not seem better than demons occasionally trying to invade sanctuary.

These people need to learn how to conversation then. Remember: it's not an interrogation or exam, you don't have to exactly answer the question as though you'll be flunked out of a class for the wrong answer. So:

"Oh man, I don't remember. But I really like x by y. What kind of music do you listen to?"

It's not that hard.