6/6, no calculator here, either.
This seems way too simple to be 4th grade math.

Is this the thread where we brag about going 6/6 in a WaPo quiz that was designed to make you feel smart?

6/6, again, no calculator.

thompsonius: Is this the thread where we brag about going 6/6 in a WaPo quiz that was designed to make you feel smart?

YES.

Woot - joining the 6/6 no calc club.

Last week Maureen earned $288.00 (before taxes) for working 40 hours.

Must be a teacher.

"1. (47 x 75) ÷ 25 = *This question is required
You can use a calculator."


Christ, its 47x3, they don't even try to "trick" you by putting another low answer with 1 as the last digit. If my daughter in 4th grade needed a calculator to pick the right answer based on the answers given, I'd hit her over the head with it.

TsarTom: Last week Maureen earned $288.00 (before taxes) for working 40 hours.

Must be a teacher.

It's a test created by republicans, preparing kids for their future wages.

dletter: "1. (47 x 75) ÷ 25 = *This question is required
You can use a calculator."


Christ, its 47x3, they don't even try to "trick" you by putting another low answer with 1 as the last digit. If my daughter in 4th grade needed a calculator to pick the right answer based on the answers given, I'd hit her over the head with it.

I remember taking the "minimum basic skills" test in high school where one of the questions was "how long is this pencil?" with a segment of a ruler above a picture of the pencil The ruler was only marked down to the quarter inch. The pencil was exactly two inches. I thought it was some sort of trick.

I don't recall learning about x and y axis in the fourth grade.

Great job! You got every question right.



/and?

Timed myself at :59. 6/6, no calculator or paper. Then again, I am a high-school math teacher.

6/6. No calculator. Come on.

timujin: Great job! You got every question right.

/and?

You want something else? Take your scrap paper (or another sheet of paper), rip it into dozens of tiny pieces and shower yourself with confetti.

What's a math?

RminusQ: timujin: Great job! You got every question right.

/and?

You want something else? Take your scrap paper (or another sheet of paper), rip it into dozens of tiny pieces and shower yourself with confetti.

Just not sure what the point of that test was, especially if they let you use a calculator. Anyone who doesn't get 6/6 on that test should probably not be operating heavy machinery.


/the confetti was fun, though.

TsarTom: Last week Maureen earned $288.00 (before taxes) for working 40 hours.

Must be a teacher.

jaylectricity: I don't recall learning about x and y axis in the fourth grade.

The second 3 questions were for 8th graders.

timujin: RminusQ: timujin: Great job! You got every question right.

/and?

You want something else? Take your scrap paper (or another sheet of paper), rip it into dozens of tiny pieces and shower yourself with confetti.

Just not sure what the point of that test was, especially if they let you use a calculator. Anyone who doesn't get 6/6 on that test should probably not be operating heavy machinery.


/the confetti was fun, though.

Fortunately, the heaviest machinery I operate is a laptop.

/5/6. Never said I was good at triangles.

5/6 I messed up the pencil question.

7/6. I'm good at math

6/6 with calculator

How you did:
Great job! You got every question right.

Another no calculator person. To be fair for most of those if you even land in the right ballpark there's only one possible answer.

ultraholland: calculator or not, none of you should be bragging that you got %100.

We're not bragging. We're merely making a present sense impression.

6 for 6.

I done got me 6 of 6 done good. What does i win?

katemonster: Woot - joining the 6/6 no calc club.

ultraholland: calculator or not, none of you should be bragging that you got %100.

less than none of you should admit you got anything under %100.

Should we brag if we know where the percent sign goes in relation to the number?

3/3

I quit because I'm just that smug.

You know, really, I got 1/1, because I reduce my fractions to their lowest terms, unlike YOU heathens.

6/6 with calculator because I wanted to get it done quickly and go back to the hot redhead thread.

6/6 and didn't even do the test.

/ohhh yeah

6/6. No calculator. BA in Law

Well of course its easy, the way to mess up adults with elementary/high school questions is to ask for useless information they have long forgotten about, like listing the biological taxonomy in order

/ 6/6 no calculator woo hoo!
//life domain kingdom phylum class order family genus species

Immune2You: TofuTheAlmighty: 6/6, no calculator.

I also have a Ph.D. so results may not be representative.

What he said.

me too.

/results are starting to look representative

Message - Great job! You got every question right.

I did have to draw the X/Y axis in the air to make sure I wasn't an idiot.

See, this is the kind of thing that makes me really wonder about the kerfluffle about 'teaching to the test' as it relates to achievement tests and whatnot, and then the stories of "Oh I'm 30 with a PhD and this test was so hard!" I mean if you're asking people to do Trig and Calc, then I understand, I could barely do them when I was taking it in high school.

But if these are the questions the kids these days are missing.....I mean....we're failing at basic order of operations, probability, division, and how a basic graph works. This isn't the high concept math here kids.