This was Georgia. The US State, Georgia. Thus, it is completely racist.
Yes I know as I told you my sister and my best friend from Chicago lives there. HOWEVER, apparently still the same it seems, no?
No. Like I said, the guy who shot Flint isn’t even from the fucking state.
Okay, I stand corrected (though I haven’t looked up).
How about the person who wrote that assignment up? Is that person from Gwinnett County or the state? Just curious.
Gwinnett County has a large black population. It, like everything else in the Atlanta metro area, has changed a lot since I lived there.
When I was growing up, Forsyth County was the big scary racist place. That’s where the KKK paraded and everyone just knew you didn’t go there if you had melanin in your skin.
Now I hear it’s not THAT bad.
But that’s neither here nor there.
The races of the teachers don’t matter.
The races of the kids don’t matter.
These math problems are insane. Period. The person who thought this was a good idea should be banned from all educational settings forever.
Wow, that’s pretty pathetic.
“It’s more if the same from Gwinnett County, even though the shit on which I’m basing its bad reputation didn’t even happen.”
Well done.
It’s not hand-waving at all. Apparently you don’t actually know what an analogy is.
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Are you from Gwinnett County?
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Wait a minute, did you write these test questions?
I know enough about them to spot a really shitty example.
Zing!!
This is just a wild guess, but you did not major in either math, or test question writing, did you?
Or were you checking who you could whoosh here?
I sincerely apologize for being ignorant and pathetic. I was off by a mile. Forgive me for dissing the area that you and my best friend reside.
Sure. It’s exactly how you should be teaching history in the upper level.
But the questions for the third graders were extremely inappropriate. And…just bad curriculum.
I’ve already pointed out that I don’t live there.
Also: According to the articles online, the teachers came up with this. This wasn’t some education schmuck in a cubicle. These were elementary school teachers.
It also looks like they were paired with everyday generic math questions as well (You are driving a bus…), so it not only lacked sensitivity, but context as well.
Sorry again. I’ve corrected it:
Forgive me for dissing the area that my best friend reside.
It was a stupid idea. There is no need to infuse math with social studies concepts. Math is math. If you want to make it more relevant and, possibly fun, for the kids, structure the problems around things they care about-- candy, games and shit like that.
The other questions I saw them paired with were also related to history. “Susan B Anthony was forced to pay a fine…”, or some such.
No, you don’t. Two things can have multiple characteristics that are analogous with respect to one set of characteristics and not analogous with respect to others.
It’s a perfectly fine idea. But it takes only a little bit of common sense to realize you don’t structure a math problem for elementary students in a way that amounts to calculating the details of crimes against humanity.
Yes, they can. But those other characteristics, if ignored, can certainly make the analogy less than perfect. Especially if those other characteristics are crucial to the point at hand.
Sounds like it was surrounded by other generic questions.