Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit

A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• edgesmash@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Teachers like this exist. One of my kids had an elementary school teacher like this. Two examples:

  1. The math assignment was about currency denominations; what coins and bills you need to make up $7.42, for example. My kid answered using $2 bills (uncommon in the US but still printed), as we have them at home. Teacher marked the answer wrong because teacher didn’t mention $2 bills in class.
  2. The writing assignment was to rewrite the Snow White story from the perspective of another character. My kid, having read a bunch of those “twisted tales” and recently fallen in love with “Wicked”, wrote from the evil queen’s perspective and made her a sympathetic character. Teacher marked her down for “changing the story” without acknowledging my kid’s creativity. Teacher did not back down when we confronted her on this during our parent teacher conference.

  (FWIW, in both cases we reassured our kid that they did great in both cases, and that we were proud of them.)

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  • Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Teacher : draw a triangle with sides of length 1 inch, 2 inches and 3 inches

    Kid : but you can’t do that. You get a 3 inch line. Other students proceed to draw skinny triangles.

    Teacher : you’re wrong Kid. Everybody else can do it, what’s your problem?

    True story.

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    • SippyCup@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You can’t draw a right triangle with those lengths, but you can draw A triangle with those sides.

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      • goldfndr@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You’re asserting that three colinear line segments, with angles only of 0° and 180°, form a triangle?

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      • derfunkatron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        How? Doesn’t this run afoul of the inequality theorem?

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    • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But could he draw red sides with blue ink?

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’d work if it were 3, 4 and 5

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• camelbeard@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also what teacher uses a green felt tip pen?

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