Sunday, March 16, 2008

The education of today's youth...

...is seriously lacking.

I'm grading *honors* quizzes on linear equations. One student calculated slope and got to: m=4/2. Then she drew an arrow and wrote "I can't divide that :|" The students who are intimidated by simplifying fractions are one thing, but she knows its just division. Where did we fail them?

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