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  • Unless you actually somehow think this was a genuine misunderstanding of the test directions, then they were clear and the student provided useless answers on purpose.

    Getting points is a reward for giving right answers. If the student wants to play language games on his math exam, let em fuck around and find out. But they do have to find out. Literally all I’ve suggested is making the student demonstrate actual understanding. Thinking even that is somehow going too far is absolutely ludicrous.


  • You have completely flipped the concepts of mature and immature. Only a child would think the exact wording of a phrase is the absolute most important thing and that context doesn’t matter at all. An adult would follow the intent of the exercise and make sure actual understanding was achieved–you know, the entire point of the test. Children love malicious compliance: “finish your homework,” so they scribble a bunch of random nonsense; “stop hitting your sister,” so they start poking them; “go outside,” so they sit down and play phone games. The fault isn’t with the adult for not being clear enough, the kid just doesn’t want to comply. Rewarding that type of shitty behavior just encourages more of it!


  • Menachem@midwest.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlmy sources say the answers are correct
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    Do better with the language next time, and it won’t happen again.

    Reward the kid for being a smartass and intentionally misreading directions, and it ABSOLUTELY will happen again. Unless you’re gonna start spending an hour writing incredibly precise paragraphs for each exercise like a magician giving instructions to a genie, there will always be some technically correct version that wasn’t what the question intended.

    This is so silly. Kids aren’t code compilers. They know what’s being asked of them. This is like shrugging your shoulders and just letting it happen when a kid is doing the whole “I’m not touching you!” shtick.


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    Oh come on. This is obviously a kid’s test, and the kid knew they were being a smartass. What’s less clear is whether the kid knew the actual answers.

    In your world you start having to write “solve the equations to their simplest forms” on tests for kindergarteners who won’t even know what that means in order to avoid technically correct nonsense like “1 + 1 = 1 + 1”. Room should be made for genuinely unclear test directions, but this is not one of those cases.

    Edit, maybe he should have gotten credit for literally writing “a number with a 2 in the ones place.” The test should have used “provide an example,” not “write!”