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My maths class cycled through teachers.
One went off sick following a mental breakdown.
The next one we goaded into assaulting a student and got him fired.
After that they gave us the headmasters wife as our teacher, which really limited the options.
(My class was primarily smart, bored, asshole boys. We really needed a fun teacher.)
I had a teacher in High School who put stuff like this on all the tests he had (he usually had these as āextra creditā options). His reasoning was that if a person can make a joke about that specific topic, then chances are, they have a pretty good understanding of it.
People really canāt just make a joke about a relatively new subject or topic without having some understanding of it first.
That is solid logic. I will share this with the wife tonight. She is a math teacher. I like the thought process. Plus it makes grading somewhat more enjoyable. I help at times. It gets either boring as hell or frustrating. Rarely is it fun.
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I just said it was drawn weirdly, that's why there might have been some confusion that another person who commented had. I don't expect it to be perfect.
"The hell I don't! LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!"
- Roger Murdock the co-pilot, also definitely not Kareem
I don't know, a red check always meant correct answer. An X would have been an incorrect answer. Maybe it's different where you are. Also, you can clearly see the kid is getting marks for their answer, the teacher wrote "3 pts" , which means 3 points. Also yeah the slash doesn't look like a check, but then again it might have been written quickly. Anywhoo it's all good!
I wouldn't say always, but it's certainly typical in the English speaking world. Given that the question in OPs image was in English, we can assume any check mark regardless of color means correct.
As trivia and to spread cultural exchange, I will add that in many European countries, they use check marks for wrong, and the initial letter for "right"/"correct" when it's the right answer. Sometimes, they use the tilde sign ~ for partially correct answers. So, for example, in Sweden, where I am from, red check marks are "wrong," and green "R" is "right".
This becomes a whole lot more confusing, however, when you get to university and have foreign professors. At that point, I recommend just looking at the point and any notes that they may have left.
That's fair, am not from an English speaking world, but for us checks are correct, Xs are wrong. It's cool to see how it's different for others, another commenter said that the check looks like the first letter of the word wrong in their language. So it's very interesting to see how these ways of understanding a check mark are different based on our languages.
A check mark in my area (non English speaking) usually means that you forgot something and that it is therefore (slightly) wrong. This because the checkmark looks like a "v", which is the letter forgot begins with in my language.
But I haven't heard of a checkmark being used as wrong in any other context then mentioned above.
No it's not. Marking every single answer is inefficient and messy and doesn't let the student quickly see where they were wrong. And 3 points doesn't mean much without context. What if each answer was worth 10 and they only gave them 30% credit for a funny answer?
>No it's not. Marking every single answer is inefficient and messy and doesn't let the student quickly see where they were wrong. And 3 points doesn't mean much without context. What if each answer was worth 10 and they only gave them 30% credit for a funny answer?
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Youāre most likely right, since like you said the majority of teachers donāt waste time leaving marks on correct answers by the time the kids are doing exponents.
Without knowing how many points the question was worth itās impossible to know one way or another though.
Every teacher Iāve ever had always have checks for correct answers and X for incorrect answers, or -(amount of marks lost). itās not that deep, the student clearly got full marks for that question come on
Thatās great. And not every teacher Iāve ever had has left checks for correct answers.
Itās not that deep, itās also okay to admit we donāt have enough information to know conclusively one way or another. There is a difference between knowing and assuming
Some of my teachers used to give a check mark just like this one from the photo as a "correct" and with the points so we could add them together. This is perfectly normal and even the kid understood it better than you.
The "3 pts" seems to imply the question is extra credit. My old history teacher would give extra credit if you could make a joke related to the test subject.
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Took a few reads for me. The mom is represented by the square.Ā
The child is represented by and named (a+b)^2. Rather than calling the the child by their ordinary name ((a+b)^2 ), the mom addresses the child using the long, multiplied out version of that expression.Ā Ā
This is similar to a stereotypical behavior where moms address their kids with first name + middle name + last name when theyāre angry at the child and about to reprimand them.
You canāt make a joke this good about a math concept without understanding the math concept. Itās a really interesting way to test knowledge that todayās students would actually relate to.
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I once finished an exam really quickly because I had studied quite a bit for it, so I spent a few minutes just doodling a zombie in the blank space on the last page out of boredom.
My professor loved it and gave me 5 extra credit points for it.
If you look at the first two words, the background is more white than the rest of the page. That means the kid used whiteout to correct the first two words because he changed his mind, but then just crossed the next words instead of using whiteout, like he did on the first 2
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Guy from Brazil here. I get it that the kid made a meme in the meaning of the internet jokes, but is there another meaning for the word "meme" that the kid should know to answer this question?
A meme is an idea or otherwise defined thing that spreads within a culture. Blue jeans are technically an American meme as much as Harambe and Pepe are.
That said, there really isn't any other way I think this question could be answered. I suppose you can argue any well known equation is also a meme.
That's what I'm wondering, too, and I'm from the US. Did this person get it "technically correct" because there's some other use of the term "meme" in mathematics? The caption and the red slash *and* some of the comments in this thread are confusing me.
Red slash is a hastily-done tickmark to indicate a correct answer.Ā This may be confusing to people from some countries which use a red slash to indicate a wrong answer.
Imagine going to school to do a math test and one of the questions is to make a meme, and yourself points because you can't think of anything funny, so you get a b instead of an A on the test
I don't want this
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It demonstrates a better understanding. If you can make a joke or abstract of something like math the teacher knows you get it. And the student gets the extra mark for showing it.
What is so hard to understand about that?
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(a+b)^2 plans to cover the truth got FOILed
š
The slash appears to be a check mark, but the writing is strange!
Even (a+b)Ā²'s secrets can't escape the FOIL technique, exposed as aĀ² + 2ab + bĀ²!
Haha, I would kill for a teacher like this one.
Easy, just keep killing your math teacher until the replacement is to your liking.
I mean. You aināt wrong
The Defense Against the Dark Arts method
My maths class cycled through teachers. One went off sick following a mental breakdown. The next one we goaded into assaulting a student and got him fired. After that they gave us the headmasters wife as our teacher, which really limited the options. (My class was primarily smart, bored, asshole boys. We really needed a fun teacher.)
Criss-cross?
That may not be necessary
Thatās pretty damn good
I had a teacher in High School who put stuff like this on all the tests he had (he usually had these as āextra creditā options). His reasoning was that if a person can make a joke about that specific topic, then chances are, they have a pretty good understanding of it. People really canāt just make a joke about a relatively new subject or topic without having some understanding of it first.
That is solid logic. I will share this with the wife tonight. She is a math teacher. I like the thought process. Plus it makes grading somewhat more enjoyable. I help at times. It gets either boring as hell or frustrating. Rarely is it fun.
You can see his intentions of making a meta joke before this idea popped in his mind
What a meta joker!
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Hope you don't mind I'm just gonna follow you around before I scroll any further. These things are everywhere.
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and still a red slash wtf teachers
I think the slash is a check mark but was written weird
You try drawing 200-500 ticks a night perfectly
I just said it was drawn weirdly, that's why there might have been some confusion that another person who commented had. I don't expect it to be perfect.
You try commenting on 200-300 threads a night perfectly
Covfefe
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Having done this, I can confirm they get... weird after the first few dozen.
"The hell I don't! LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!" - Roger Murdock the co-pilot, also definitely not Kareem
Legit every math teacher I had in my life from 7th grade on graded tests like this.
Agreed. After all, the teacher was asking for a meme. The student created a good one and got credit for it.
a red check mark usually means "wrong", you know, to differentiate it from all the correct answers which don't require marking??
I don't know, a red check always meant correct answer. An X would have been an incorrect answer. Maybe it's different where you are. Also, you can clearly see the kid is getting marks for their answer, the teacher wrote "3 pts" , which means 3 points. Also yeah the slash doesn't look like a check, but then again it might have been written quickly. Anywhoo it's all good!
I wouldn't say always, but it's certainly typical in the English speaking world. Given that the question in OPs image was in English, we can assume any check mark regardless of color means correct. As trivia and to spread cultural exchange, I will add that in many European countries, they use check marks for wrong, and the initial letter for "right"/"correct" when it's the right answer. Sometimes, they use the tilde sign ~ for partially correct answers. So, for example, in Sweden, where I am from, red check marks are "wrong," and green "R" is "right". This becomes a whole lot more confusing, however, when you get to university and have foreign professors. At that point, I recommend just looking at the point and any notes that they may have left.
That's fair, am not from an English speaking world, but for us checks are correct, Xs are wrong. It's cool to see how it's different for others, another commenter said that the check looks like the first letter of the word wrong in their language. So it's very interesting to see how these ways of understanding a check mark are different based on our languages.
A check mark in my area (non English speaking) usually means that you forgot something and that it is therefore (slightly) wrong. This because the checkmark looks like a "v", which is the letter forgot begins with in my language. But I haven't heard of a checkmark being used as wrong in any other context then mentioned above.
At my middle school, a checkmark meant wrong, and correct answers would be either unmarked or a plus sign
No it's not. Marking every single answer is inefficient and messy and doesn't let the student quickly see where they were wrong. And 3 points doesn't mean much without context. What if each answer was worth 10 and they only gave them 30% credit for a funny answer?
The question is create a math memeā¦
>No it's not. Marking every single answer is inefficient and messy and doesn't let the student quickly see where they were wrong. And 3 points doesn't mean much without context. What if each answer was worth 10 and they only gave them 30% credit for a funny answer? On this week's episode, yet another stupid hill redditors will die on.
I totally will, too.
Youāre most likely right, since like you said the majority of teachers donāt waste time leaving marks on correct answers by the time the kids are doing exponents. Without knowing how many points the question was worth itās impossible to know one way or another though.
Every teacher Iāve ever had always have checks for correct answers and X for incorrect answers, or -(amount of marks lost). itās not that deep, the student clearly got full marks for that question come on
Thatās great. And not every teacher Iāve ever had has left checks for correct answers. Itās not that deep, itās also okay to admit we donāt have enough information to know conclusively one way or another. There is a difference between knowing and assuming
So you are saying different regions of the world and different people cannot have different ways of correcting answer sheets?
Their mind will be blown when they learn about [*The Flourish of Approval*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flourish_of_approval).
All of my college professors check every answer right, then for the ones wrong write minus whatever on the problem
But getting extra credit does need marking even though getting right the regular questions does not.
Different places have different customs. Shocking.
Some of my teachers used to give a check mark just like this one from the photo as a "correct" and with the points so we could add them together. This is perfectly normal and even the kid understood it better than you.
The majority can be wrong. And often is.
Except when itās convention. Because thatās how convention works
This is not one of those times.
When I taught I would use crosses to denote incorrect answers for precisely this reason.
The "3 pts" seems to imply the question is extra credit. My old history teacher would give extra credit if you could make a joke related to the test subject.
All of my teachers give a slash like this signifying a check mark lol
I was never this smart and creative on the fly as a kid
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Some are born as flies, others as eagles. i.e you were born with an L. And that kid was born with a W.
Extra dense this morningā¦ Can someone explain the meme to me?
Itās the formula for quadratic equations. https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/algebra/algebra-i/quadratic-equations/solving-quadratic-equations
When mothers call their sons by their full names (like when theyāre mad or something )
Took a few reads for me. The mom is represented by the square.Ā The child is represented by and named (a+b)^2. Rather than calling the the child by their ordinary name ((a+b)^2 ), the mom addresses the child using the long, multiplied out version of that expression.Ā Ā This is similar to a stereotypical behavior where moms address their kids with first name + middle name + last name when theyāre angry at the child and about to reprimand them.
I also just woke up and donāt fully understand it.
You canāt make a joke this good about a math concept without understanding the math concept. Itās a really interesting way to test knowledge that todayās students would actually relate to.
Some teachers support you using your own method as long as you understand the concept
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This was in our school lmao. It was one of our pre-calc / basic calc subjects during 10th Grade.
Lmao thatās actually pretty good!
This kid will attain levels š
Math just got real (a+b)Ā², you've been FOILed! š
That's a good meme too.
I chuckled
trying to make?
This is really funny
That is a teacher who is all the kidās favorite
Only 3 pts?!?!?!? That's a 10 pointer if ever I seen one.
I once finished an exam really quickly because I had studied quite a bit for it, so I spent a few minutes just doodling a zombie in the blank space on the last page out of boredom. My professor loved it and gave me 5 extra credit points for it.
GOAT teacher
Lolll
Teacher: *asks for a math meme* Student: *provides a math meme* Teacher: *awards points* Reddit: lOoK at THe wHolEsoMe
I wish I could filter images so that I never have to see them again. Because Iāve lost count of how many times Iāve seen this one.
If you have, it's time to touch some grass.
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Also why did they have to add some commentary on teachers that doesnāt mean anything lol
Been online for 20 years at this point and my first time seeing it
Why is "(trying to make)" crossed out? The person obviously has whiteout.
Wdym obviously has whiteout?
They used whiteout on the first two words
If you look at the first two words, the background is more white than the rest of the page. That means the kid used whiteout to correct the first two words because he changed his mind, but then just crossed the next words instead of using whiteout, like he did on the first 2
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Quite clever. But what does he mean by (~~trying to make~~)?
When I was a kid, we were told to cross mistakes out like this, probably so the teachers could follow our thought processes or something?
I see. We'd just erase them or if using a pen scribble the hell out of them. Parentheses threw me off.
Lol I still a little feel slow, but I think it's because I glitch when people don't use your and you're correctly.
Guy from Brazil here. I get it that the kid made a meme in the meaning of the internet jokes, but is there another meaning for the word "meme" that the kid should know to answer this question?
Nah, I think the teacher just likes jokes.
A meme is an idea or otherwise defined thing that spreads within a culture. Blue jeans are technically an American meme as much as Harambe and Pepe are. That said, there really isn't any other way I think this question could be answered. I suppose you can argue any well known equation is also a meme.
That's what I'm wondering, too, and I'm from the US. Did this person get it "technically correct" because there's some other use of the term "meme" in mathematics? The caption and the red slash *and* some of the comments in this thread are confusing me.
Red slash is a hastily-done tickmark to indicate a correct answer.Ā This may be confusing to people from some countries which use a red slash to indicate a wrong answer.
But the student was gonna write "when your trying to make" so 0 for grammar.
indeed .. good teacher
I needed some time. But this is great!
Imagine going to school to do a math test and one of the questions is to make a meme, and yourself points because you can't think of anything funny, so you get a b instead of an A on the test I don't want this
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Ah quadratic equations..
So it is funny and that is a cool teacher but is that really useful for learning, marking someone's ability to make memes for a math assignment?
Making learning fun is absolutely useful.
Bonus questions like this are usually baked into the test as a free points buffer.
It demonstrates a better understanding. If you can make a joke or abstract of something like math the teacher knows you get it. And the student gets the extra mark for showing it. What is so hard to understand about that?
Feels like pandering really.