i am currently marking the exams from my grade 3 and 4 classes... and all i can think of is : FAIL. fail to you kids for making absolutely ridiculous mistakes that make absolutely no sense to me and fail to me for not drilling in the concepts hard enough. well i tried, but your attention spans dont last long enough...
1. draw a bar graph for the following data...
the sample sizes go from 1 to 8 and they give you a table with 9 rows... one student decides to put a scale of one square = 5 and to top that off, her scale reads 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40, 40
2. same question
another student colored in groups of boxes to represent each sample... to paint a picture, little clusters of squares all over the graph....
3. find the perimeter and area
area = count the squares.. apparently that's too difficult for half the class...
4. worded problems
i really really dont see why over half the class couldnt subtract 26 from 60?!
one student's working out showed 60-26=26 and another 60-26=72....
most of them drew pictures on the last page... maybe i'll have to give them marks for their drawings instead...
that's only the grade 3's so far so hopefully i'll still have hair on my head by the end of marking the grade 4s...
Yes, little kiddies are curious creatures aren't they? I remember having to teach a Gr 2/3 class at NQT what essays were (too early in my humble opinion). There was this particular little brat who insisted that not only was she clueless of what school she attended but also what her teacher's name was. Oh and she also spent 10 minutes yelling in my face that 2x3 is NOT 6.
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