I got a A on my math test!

[dclamp]

Can anyone guess my hair length?



Oh wow, you got it DClamp

well you lost me...

[timeshifter]

guess my hair length.


NO CHEATING AND GOING TO MYSPACE!!!!!!



that's it. You already lost.



Damnit.



I hate you all.

[singularis]

Ha! I am english and do not have worry about your american system of education

Btw: its maths not math !

[RudiVisser]

Ha! I am english and do not have worry about your american system of education

Btw: its maths not math !

Here, There,

[rory]

Ha! I am english and do not have worry about your american system of education

Btw: its maths not math !

no, it sucks is what it is ..

[zynder]

Can you answer this? 1 + 2 +3?

[wossname]

You're a little too old to be in the 9th grade. To be in the 9th grade and learning what your sister is learning in the 4th grade.

Is she a child prodigy?

She's a firestarter, twisted firestarter.

[penagate]

Smack her up.

[timeshifter]

1+2+3=123

Duh..

[ak28it]

I am creating activities for 4th grade math students concerning math story problems. Solving one-step story problems involving whole numbers and money amounts. 2 and 3 digit numbers in addition and subtraction and 1 and 2 digit number multiplication problems.

I am trying to stay away from basic worksheets. Looking for hand-on activities.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[Jacob Roman]

The Truth: The sad truth about majority of young kids and math is that they don't like math and all they want is to get home and play video games.

The solution: Write a math based video game!

The idea: Everytime they get something correct math related, they earn experience points. They need enough experience to level up, similar to RPG's. They need 400 xp to reach level 2. 900 xp to reach level 3. 1400 xp for level 4. And so on. Their homework would be to reach a certain level before the next day. Over leveling would mean they wouldn't need to play as hard the next day, effectively causing them to learn and have fun with it. What kid wouldn't kill to level up fast. They are already doing it as adults playing World of Warcraft! It would need to be something not as boring as just math story problems or flash cards, but something with a twist, blending a fun game with mathematics involved. Like a player would need to complete a quest and the quest giver gives em a math related story / quest that they would need to pull off in order to complete the quest and earn experience during the quest as well as earn experience after completing the quest. You can't get any more hands on than that and what kid these days don't own a computer. It's nearly 2012

Marketable?: Possibly

[moti barski]

the thing is, that math can't be used in real life

[BlindSniper]

the thing is, that math can't be used in real life

lol.
Although I agree most things taught at school will likely never help you in real life, you do need to know how to do maths.

[abhijit]

the thing is, that math can't be used in real life

i'll bite!

moti, how did you come up with gem like that?

[Shaggy Hiker]

The Truth: The sad truth about majority of young kids and math is that they don't like math and all they want is to get home and play video games.

The solution: Write a math based video game!

The idea: Everytime they get something correct math related, they earn experience points. They need enough experience to level up, similar to RPG's. They need 400 xp to reach level 2. 900 xp to reach level 3. 1400 xp for level 4. And so on. Their homework would be to reach a certain level before the next day. Over leveling would mean they wouldn't need to play as hard the next day, effectively causing them to learn and have fun with it. What kid wouldn't kill to level up fast. They are already doing it as adults playing World of Warcraft! It would need to be something not as boring as just math story problems or flash cards, but something with a twist, blending a fun game with mathematics involved. Like a player would need to complete a quest and the quest giver gives em a math related story / quest that they would need to pull off in order to complete the quest and earn experience during the quest as well as earn experience after completing the quest. You can't get any more hands on than that and what kid these days don't own a computer. It's nearly 2012

Marketable?: Possibly

Some schools are looking into leveling rather than grades. I think it has a lot of potential. When you get a grade, who are you really competing against? For some people, they won't get much satisfaction from that, but a leveling system would be much more directly competitive.

Personally, I think it's a brilliant idea. It makes use of the tendencies most of us have to begin with.

[Jacob Roman]

Some schools are looking into leveling rather than grades. I think it has a lot of potential. When you get a grade, who are you really competing against? For some people, they won't get much satisfaction from that, but a leveling system would be much more directly competitive.

Personally, I think it's a brilliant idea. It makes use of the tendencies most of us have to begin with.

Also why limit it to just math? It can also be used for English, Social Studies, History, etc. Remember Carmen Sandiego? You learned a lot playing that game even though on the side you were gathering clues to finding the crooks. The propaganda is the learning experience gained.

[abhijit]

They are now planning a movie on that.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Also why limit it to just math? It can also be used for English, Social Studies, History, etc. Remember Carmen Sandiego? You learned a lot playing that game even though on the side you were gathering clues to finding the crooks. The propaganda is the learning experience gained.

Absolutely.

Frankly, I think this is the most promising concept in teaching in decades, and I hope to see it attempted in earnest. I believe that the minds to do a good job with this exist these days, and have reached the proper age. The whole concept probably wasn't possible to discover as recently as the 90s, because the level-chasing games didn't really show up. I guess there were games like D&D that had been around longer, but they were a total fringe activity. Now that you have all kinds of level based games, the motivational impact of such a reward system is being better and better understood. The only issue now is implementing it. Not a small problem, of course, but a tractable one.

[Jacob Roman]

This concept should be tested on children. It worked on me when I was very very young. I learned how to read at the age of 2 cause of a Sesame Street game on the Apple IIc and was already picking up math before I even reached grade school. Old people (mainly teachers) find video games to be a childish thing. Yet video games can be a useful tool on accelerated learning! It just depends on how you use it. Children don't like being bored to death. If anything it prevents them from learning at all.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I agree. That's one of the reasons that I think the idea is coming of age. The video game genration is reaching middle age.

Of course, in your case, you also turned into a WoW player, so it may be that there are some negative side effects.

[Jacob Roman]

Heeeeey I don't play WoW 24/7 or I wouldn't be coding, spending time with my girl, or hanging out here

If I did I'd end up looking like this ------>

[dclamp]

I got a A on my math test and A+ on all my homework!

Hmm. 4 years ago i got an A on my test...

[Atheist]

Hmm. 4 years ago i got an A on my test...

Truly remarkable, Sherlock!

[d_glienna]

They taught kids (using a KINECT) that never learned to read. Kill BUGS, because they spread GERMS. Then 'kill' them in 30 second Kinect Game. Neat concept

[dclamp]

NO CHEATING AND GOING TO MYSPACE!!!!!!

MySpace.

[opus]

You're a couple of days early

[Niya]

What's a MySpace ? Is that some ancient artifact or something ?

[SJWhiteley]

bahahaha.


Wait till differentials and integrals.

Things go down hill pretty fast, then things get really hard...

[Shaggy Hiker]

I thought that was the other way around.

Wait, what are we talking about?

[dunfiddlin]

the thing is, that math can't be used in real life

Now you're the kind of guy I like to sell things to!

[dclamp]

What's a MySpace ? Is that some ancient artifact or something ?

Mayans used it when making their calendar

[Shaggy Hiker]

So THAT's why there aren't any Mayans around anymore....

[RobDog888]

And is that why the months are all messed up with their names and ordinals?

October should be the 8th month and December the 10th but nooooo someone had to go and add additional months after the calendar was in place and carved in stone. Now all the predictions done thousands of years ago are not all off and we wonder why they got it wrong lol

[Shaggy Hiker]

September should also be the seventh month, and March should be the month for walking, but there's generally too much snow, still, at that time.

[dunfiddlin]

And is that why the months are all messed up with their names and ordinals?

October should be the 8th month and December the 10th but nooooo someone had to go and add additional months after the calendar was in place and carved in stone. Now all the predictions done thousands of years ago are not all off and we wonder why they got it wrong lol

Well to be fair, undecimember and duodecimember, leave something to be desired as month names! It looks suspiciously like the names came out of some arduous committee meeting which started with enthusiasm (Gods! Janus, Mars!) became increasingly turgid (Oh, I don't know, what about a couple of Emperors?) and then fizzled out altogether (Sod this! I'm going down the pub! They'll have to put up with the numbers! And, no we're not messing about adjusting to a duodecimal year! I need a drink!)

[Shaggy Hiker]

duodecimember looks suspiciously like something that came out of the upper small intestine.