ast Thursday when I came into Emma's class room, they were taking a math test. Her teacher told me that I COULD NOT help them. At first it was no biggie. Sure stay out of the way and no prob right? Well this isn't your ordinary math test. I took a look at the test and soon discovered that the test didn't look a thing like the homework they had been doing. According to the company who puts this out, this test is supposed to go along with the homework. What a big fat lie. The homework gives visual aids to help the kids understand that when ten apples are eaten and there were twelve to start with, you cross out the ten and count the two are left and that is your answer. This test was written in a math lingo they had never used. I understand and I agree with testing to a point but when the test is totally different from the way they have learned how to do something and it is confusing to them and they are getting tons of it wrong, there's a problem. Our poor friend Nicolas looked like he was going to cry. Emma was getting upset and she's picks up on math pretty well. Anyway needless to say it was pretty tough walking around seeing common mistakes being made and not being able to really do anything about it. I couldn't even guide them to understand the problem. You know you really want to have faith in our public school system but when something like this happens, it makes things seem really out of wack. At least Emma's teacher understands the test is written poorly. Actually it was her who first pointed it out to me.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
The Test .....dun dun dun
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ast Thursday when I came into Emma's class room, they were taking a math test. Her teacher told me that I COULD NOT help them. At first it was no biggie. Sure stay out of the way and no prob right? Well this isn't your ordinary math test. I took a look at the test and soon discovered that the test didn't look a thing like the homework they had been doing. According to the company who puts this out, this test is supposed to go along with the homework. What a big fat lie. The homework gives visual aids to help the kids understand that when ten apples are eaten and there were twelve to start with, you cross out the ten and count the two are left and that is your answer. This test was written in a math lingo they had never used. I understand and I agree with testing to a point but when the test is totally different from the way they have learned how to do something and it is confusing to them and they are getting tons of it wrong, there's a problem. Our poor friend Nicolas looked like he was going to cry. Emma was getting upset and she's picks up on math pretty well. Anyway needless to say it was pretty tough walking around seeing common mistakes being made and not being able to really do anything about it. I couldn't even guide them to understand the problem. You know you really want to have faith in our public school system but when something like this happens, it makes things seem really out of wack. At least Emma's teacher understands the test is written poorly. Actually it was her who first pointed it out to me.
ast Thursday when I came into Emma's class room, they were taking a math test. Her teacher told me that I COULD NOT help them. At first it was no biggie. Sure stay out of the way and no prob right? Well this isn't your ordinary math test. I took a look at the test and soon discovered that the test didn't look a thing like the homework they had been doing. According to the company who puts this out, this test is supposed to go along with the homework. What a big fat lie. The homework gives visual aids to help the kids understand that when ten apples are eaten and there were twelve to start with, you cross out the ten and count the two are left and that is your answer. This test was written in a math lingo they had never used. I understand and I agree with testing to a point but when the test is totally different from the way they have learned how to do something and it is confusing to them and they are getting tons of it wrong, there's a problem. Our poor friend Nicolas looked like he was going to cry. Emma was getting upset and she's picks up on math pretty well. Anyway needless to say it was pretty tough walking around seeing common mistakes being made and not being able to really do anything about it. I couldn't even guide them to understand the problem. You know you really want to have faith in our public school system but when something like this happens, it makes things seem really out of wack. At least Emma's teacher understands the test is written poorly. Actually it was her who first pointed it out to me.
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i HATE having to give those silly tests! and of course, the teacher's taching is relfected in the grades, even though it is the dumb test. sorry. we just got results back from our dumb kinder test from October and of course my kids did miserably! and it makes them feel horrible... like they don't know anything.
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