America sucks asshole at math

I feel like most kids on ns arent half bad at math. If youve been skiing your whole life, chances are your padres are pretty well off, meaning youve got smarter than avg genes. Anyway...
 
where did you got to school?

for me it was

9 = 13/14

10 = 14/15

11 = 15/16

12 = 16/17

1st year uni 17/18 and so on

So unless you failed grades you're in grade 10 or 11 when you're 15.
 
Was that everyone or just you?

Kid who were "old" for my grade had a birthday in the summer and they were 15 in 9th grade and the youngest you could be was 14. no one was ever 15 in 10th grade or 13 in 9th grade because the way my school system worked (and every school system I ever have seen in my 25 years on earth) you started kindergarden when you were 5 and the cutoff was like june 1st.

So i turned 5 in dec 1994 and if you turned 5 after june 1st (or something) you went kindergarden and if you were before that certain date, you'd go the year before, even if it was may 31st.

to clarify, my school was (and every school ive ever heard of)

K=5/6

1=6/7

2=7/8

3=8/9

4=9/10

5=10/11

6=11/12

7=12/13

8=13/14

9= 14/15

10=15/16

11=16/17

12=17/18

first year of college = 18/19 (of course this is always different but this was "standard")
 
He is correct, I'm one of those "old" kids with a summer birthday. I was born on the cutoff date for my school system, so they gave my parents the option of sending me to school one year, or the next. They chose the latter, so I have been and will be 18 for the duration of my senior year. And I was I really think that extra year of development before schooling as a child helped me out a lot. Plus, I'll be able to drink legally and buy alcohol for a longer time in college.
 
I have a late birthday. I guess most people would be in grade 10 then.

That doesn't matter though. The fact that only have of 15 year olds in the school system now have that little math comprehension is terrifying.

I'm going to partly blame this one the new teaching ideologies. In Canada, for instance, you can't fail students. Even if they don't hand something in, you can't give them a failing grade for it.

Sounds completely absurd right?

There was a physics teacher in Alberta who gave a student a 0 for an assignment he didn't hand in. No assignment, no mark. Perfectly simple.

He got fired. True story.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-teacher-who-gave-0s-for-unsubmitted-work-fired-1.1193531

This has to be the most logical explanation. Along with increasingly poor work ethic, kids in school these days are getting pulled through even if they don't deserve it.

I'm scared of what the workforce will look like in 20 years.
 
Again, I GUARANTEE at least half, probably more, of those incorrect answers were kids bullshitting a stupid survey that doesn't count for anything in their grades. I know I did that for every survey that they gave to us that didn't count. Immature 15 year-olds aren't going to take a non-consequential survey seriously in school.

And that's both insanely absurd and intriguing that you can't give students failing grades in Canada. I wish I went to school there, I would never have done any of the bullshit busy work teachers give nowadays and would've just focused on the things that matter like acing assessments and standardized tests.
 
You're wrong. Know why you're wrong?

The success rate of the first question was up in the 90's. This can mean either 2 things. People tried to get it right, or the more than 1/4 of the students who were bullshitting it just happened to all get it right while the other 3/4 also all got it right.

Bull. Shit.

It's funny, but the mentality of someone taking a test that is anonymous is still to do their best and out compete others. It's just the way humans are.

I guarantee
 
this is bullshit. that teacher getting fired was a one time thing and it was probably because his coworkers and superiors thought he was a douche. there's a reason that story made the news, because it controversial, not because it happens every day. people get failed all the time here, our school system is almost exactly the same as the american one, our curriculum is just slightly better.
 
that's not funny that's fucking pathetic and sad and i feel bad for anyone who thinks their rank in humanity is in any way determined by how good they are at math.
 
EVERYONE IS SO STUPID, EXCEPT FOR ME!!!!!! WE'RE ALL FUCKED IN THE FUTURE!!!!!

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It has nothing to do with math. It's just the way humans are. We're an incredibly competitive species. Even in anonymous surveys people exaggerate to make themselves seem better, even if there's no possible way to know who submitted it. True stuff.
 
did you read the article?

"An Edmonton teacher who refused to go along with his school's "no-zero" policy has been fired."

He got fired because he gave a mark of zero. Plain and simple.

Obviously not all school are like this, but many school boards in Canada have similar policies.
 
i know there's A LOT of weak bitches in the world, but i'm gonna have to agree with Benson on this one and say that there's just as many guys who actually do have 8 inch cocks or who actually know that swinging your dick around makes you look like a virgin.
 
When you did EQUO tests did you bullshit everything? Or did you actually try to answer the questions.
 
do you not comprehend that anything under a 60 is a fail? it doesn't take giving a zero in any school board in canada to fail someone. the reason why the teacher got fired doesn't mean that you saying kids can't fail in canada isn't pure bullshit. i'll give you a zero for making shit up and backing it up with a single unrelated news source.
 
never mind. you wouldn't have. thought you were from Toronto.

But EQAO tests were test that you did in grade 3, 6, and 9 in Ontario and it was completely anonymous and meant nothing to your grade. It was just used to rank schools.

People actually took them seriously. No one was fooling around doing these test, everyone tried and did their best on them. (maybe to make their school look good?)

But point is, it;s the exact same thing. You give a serious test to students and even if it doesn't mean jack shit for their grades they'll actually try to succeed in it.

 
tbh i don't even know if i did an EQUO test because that wasn't really my priority in high school, but i went to a work-at-your-own-pace school and everything was pretty different there, ie. not having classes and just submitting your work when you felt like it (enabling high achievers to finish a year early or slow kids to take another year). i'm not gonna tell you what my dick size is ok.
 
But it's not like they can just give 1%. They can't assign a mark for not handing in work. No mark = no fail. No-zero policies are essentially a no fail policy for work that hasn't been handed in.
 
But to put this more simply, America values stupidity.

The Kardashians are top celebrities in this country, people who have literally created nothing, ever.

Stupidity is valued elsewehere as well, look at how many people wanted "regular ol Sarah Palin" to be VP, and think that an education is elitist and absurd.

And parenting has gone out the window as well. Parents no longer want to enforce rules, they want to be their kids friend. This means when they dont want to do homework or play hooky, the parent buys in. But someone has to take the blame when that kid fails, so who does? The teacher. Because they didnt do more to help the kid who refused to do any work in the first place.
 
not arguing with that man, and i agree that's dumb, but so's the entire school system in north america. that's why even when kids in ontario try their fuckin hardest at some test they look like shit compared to europe.

i was simply calling out your bs about not being allowed to fail, cause thats bs, and i guarantee that one guy who got fired one time in edmonton was a special circumstance, as evidenced by this policy that doesn't apply to every school, and the termination letter which basically states "you're a dick, and now you've crossed the line."

 
Anyways, who cares? you should care about how you do in school, not some kids that don't give a shit about school
 
If this was a national exam, it would have made sense to collect socioeconomical data as well. Theres a difference between terrible schooling systems and kids who are actually idiots.
 
Its not that we're not spending the money- we spent $113,000 per student, twice as much as Slovokia ($53,000). Our system just doesn't work
 
I honestly believe its because not very bright people become teachers. Speaking as an elementary education graduate, I was astounded at how unintelligent a lot of my fellow students were. And they all graduated and got teaching licenses. We need to make the college program more rigorous, and reward teachers accordingly to attract the brightest minds to teaching. Not saying that being bright is the only necessary tool to teaching, but enjoying working with children isn't the only aspect thats important either.
 
I would agree on the sports. I think educational technology is fantastic though. I love having a smartboard.
 
America is pretty awful at math its pretty unfortunate. But the joke is really on those kids because STEMS pay way more than other degrees. Iv noticed that a lot of kids in my classes who suck at math really dont put the effort in. Its just practice.
 
funny that 9/10th of the measurements he used aren't imperial measurements but are British measurements pre-imperial system. They are NOT part of the imperial system.

here's a fun diagram

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we obviously cant read a chart if we are bad at math

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I used a smartboard in high school once when we first got them. I tried to do a presentation in spanish class. Turns out doing it in spanish wasn't the hard part, using the smart board was.

And before you say it's not hard to use, you're right, it's not. But when the teacher won't let the students calibrate it correctly to make it work it becomes really difficult to use. That's something I never understood about school. The teachers never let us touch any of the technology, even though we're infinitely better at it than they are half the time.
 
Took it and got 100% /claim. I can understand people getting the last one right but the rest were so straightforward. America, I am disappoint.
 
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