Yelled, in frustration over a math worksheet: “MOM! In math class, we don’t always have to get the right answer!”
(…”but in the new approach, as you know, the important thing is to understand what you’re doing rather than to get the right answer.”)
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Oh, Lord…..we had a math episode here, tonight, too. Brittany tried rushing through her math homework so she could watch TV and wound up multiplying and adding wrong all over the place. After she did everything all over again, she missed the whole show that she might have only missed 5 minutes of if she’d taken her time the first time through :-\
Yep, we hear almost exactly the same thing in our household. Makes me nuts!
Gah!! I get so aggravated at this “Oh, nearly right is just fine!” math crap the elementary schools are teaching these days. Grrr! It’s MATH, for pete’s sake. It is NOT SUBJECTIVE. Answers are right or wrong–there is no “close enough!”
Our world is *built* on math, and relies on continual calculations arriving at the correct answer, billions of times a day, to stay functioning properly! Wrong answers in math mean that bridges fail, buildings fall, and lives are lost.
Great video! I’m going to show my kids tonight.