RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
October 2, 2019 at 6:13 am
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2019 at 6:50 am by Little lunch.)
(October 1, 2019 at 9:51 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Apparently, kids in the SEVENTH GRADE are no longer taught the multiplication tables. I work at a candy store and this kid asked me how much a hundred Jolly Ranchers would cost. Jolly Ranchers cost 10 cents apiece at the store, so I asked her to do the math. Anyone who knows anything about multiplication knows that the ten times table is easy as shit; just add another zero to the end and you got the answer. She could not do it. She said her teacher hadn't gotten to that yet. And then she said she was in the seventh grade. Yup, our schools really are failing our kids if they can't do the most basic math even at this age.
My daughter is in grade three and just got her Naplan results, which is a test given to all students nationwide.
She's up near the top in the 'well above the average' bracket.
I'm so proud, except for that tiny part of me that wonders if she really is my daughter. :-)
And also, I learnt today that the Tasmanian Magpie does not swoop on people like the magpie does over here on the mainland.
Some old feller got killed a couple of weeks ago, ran into a wall on his pushbike whilst being attacked by a magpie.