2024-06-24T18:44:58Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/what-why-you-hated-math-in-schooltag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1609/52172024-06-24T18:44:58ZSursumCorda<p>Grace, the number of small dogs is 36 MORE THAN the number of large dogs. If the answer were 36, the number of large dogs would have to be 0, which cannot be, since there are 49 total dogs.</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1609/52162024-06-24T14:15:49ZGrace Kone<p>Explain to me why the answer was not a proper second-grade-simplicity 36. Anything else sounds like the gobbledygook of New Math (which my grandchildren suffered through).</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1609/52152024-06-23T22:34:02ZSursumCorda<p>Which is one reason why you win teaching awards, Kathy. And why your classes in the Gambia were twice the size of other classes. There are still students who realize that more rigor = more learning.</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1609/52142024-06-23T21:38:10ZKathy Lewis<p>I really beat into my students &quot;Make sure your answer makes sense!&quot; They get penalized more for a nonsense answer than a sensible wrong one unless they say &quot;I know my answer is wrong but I can't find my mistake.&quot; As soon as I read this problem I thought &quot;parity problem here!&quot;</p>