Sammy-ism
Posted by Carrie on 16 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Samuel
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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on 16 Nov 2009 at 9:24 pm
Heather said …
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 :-\
on 17 Nov 2009 at 8:38 am
Karen said …
Yep, we hear almost exactly the same thing in our household. Makes me nuts!
on 17 Nov 2009 at 8:43 pm
Sue said …
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.
on 19 Nov 2009 at 12:04 pm
Earthmover said …
Great video! I’m going to show my kids tonight.