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madfloridian

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8. I am feeling a little sick about this whole thing now.

Reply to madfloridian (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 07:09 PM

Sep 2014

I did not realize things were this far along in accepting the new reforms. Accepting an answer with the wrong operational sign because it is in the same family? I always taught my students to think, and they would be the first to argue that there is no right answer there.

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I would never have expected this level of vitriol about a faulty test item. [View all] madfloridian Sep 2014 OP

why? high stakes + erroneous content = crappy education elehhhhna Sep 2014 #1

What did you expect? How do you perceive the responses should have gone? . . . Journeyman Sep 2014 #2

That there was no minus sign in the answer choices. madfloridian Sep 2014 #3

You know..that's a strange question. madfloridian Sep 2014 #10

I agree. I also thought the structure of the question a bit odd. . . Journeyman Sep 2014 #11

All you need do is restructure the English language. immoderate Sep 2014 #4

i remember a faulty sat question unblock Sep 2014 #5

I was just reading that thread... malthaussen Sep 2014 #6

All it really takes is Carol Burriss' comment, elleng Sep 2014 #7

The CBS interviewer even noticed. madfloridian Sep 2014 #12

Not reading. elleng Sep 2014 #14

I am feeling a little sick about this whole thing now. madfloridian Sep 2014 #8

That's the "creating our own reality" paradigm, coming into play Demeter Sep 2014 #9

Also a decade is now ten days in first grade. roody Sep 2014 #13

The word 'decade' does have a more general meaning... xocet Sep 2014 #16

That is one heck of a thread. Thanks for the OP. n/t xocet Sep 2014 #15