Here’s the deal: I need to come up with as many multiple choice questions as I can for 4th grade level, with answers that will force them to pay attention to the details of the question and/or choices. See, my children have a bad habit of not paying attention to detail.
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My nine year old daughter had some simple arithmatic homework the other night - a bunch of addition / subtraction, etc.
The first two problems were addition problems. She then proceeded to do all 30 or so of them as addition problems - ignoring the actual operator.
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On the other hand, I recently purchased the computer game Neverwinter Nights. What do the two have to do with each other? NWN comes with a great toolset for creating your own games, with conversations and actions based on which response in the conversation is chosen. I thought “What a great way to help my kids learn to pay attention to detail! They love games!”
But, I have writers block (or some such) - I’m afraid I won’t be able to think of enough. I want as many as possible so I can make the conversations random, so they can’t come back through the game next time and already know all the answers. Questions like:
So all you parents, teachers, and assorted dopers - throw me some QnA. Thanks!!!