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Sharon
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Re: a little light humor
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Jul 1, 2008 6:53 PM
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This is an excellent representation of the way a student might have interpreted this problem.? Thank you for taking the time to locate it and share it.
Perhaps you should share it with SED as well :-)
Sharon :)
Perhaps if you took a look at this picture, you'd understand how something can be rectangular and go around something.?
http://penick.net/digging/images/2008_05_13%20Gardens%20on%20Tour/Spencer%20garden_pond.JPG
Assume for a moment that those blocks were stepping stones in a garden.? How would you describe that shape? I only spent a couple seconds looking for such a picture, so it's not exactly a walkway.?? But, also note, the blocks are each approximately 1 square foot.? Again, I don't find the perimeter interpretation incorrect.?? If someone said that bikers in a velodrome ride around a banked?oval path, would you correct them because the center of the oval isn't paved?
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From: TKENYON@crcs.wnyric.org
To: nysmathab@mathforum.org
Sent: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 3:39 pm
Subject: Re: a little light humor
Perhaps if you took a look at this picture, you'd understand how something can be rectangular and go around something.?
http://penick.net/digging/images/2008_05_13%20Gardens%20on%20Tour/Spencer%20garden_pond.JPG
Assume for a moment that those blocks were stepping stones in a garden.? How would you describe that shape? I only spent a couple seconds looking for such a picture, so it's not exactly a walkway.?? But, also note, the blocks are each approximately 1 square foot.? Again, I don't find the perimeter interpretation incorrect.?? If someone said that bikers in a velodrome ride around a banked?oval path, would you correct them because the center of the oval isn't paved?
-Tom
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To: nysmathab@mathforum.org
From: numb3rs314 <mstefano@adelphia.net>
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Date: 06/28/2008 07:59AM
Subject: Re: a little light humor
And then the thought process is - how could it be a RECTANGULAR ?walkway if it is around a garden? ?Aha! ?Rectangular means it has the shape of a rectangle. ?Much younger students can tell you that.
For those who think the test should be strictly about math and not reading ?- ?part of math is learning problem solving capabilities. ?Students are not going to use a lot of this in life (as they always tell me) but they do need to learn how to think. ?Solving math problems is partially a reading test. ?Students must read and translate English into algebra. ?I tell them it's another language they are learning.
If they can't read and translate the problems by the time they get to this class, the solution is not dumbing down the test. ?Go back to the root cause and fix it!
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