Instead of Friday Favorites, I’m now going to make Friday’s a surprise. You have to tune in to find out if it will be a trick or a treat…
Today is a quiz:
- 5+5+________
- Is Pluto a planet?
- What is the difference between they’re, their and there?
- Is America a democracy or a republic?
ANSWERS:
- 10. Except if you go to a school that has the show your work model. Then the answer can be anything you want as long as you show your work. True story: my daughter can do a lot of math in her head, so when it came to these sorts of problems she would just write down an answer. She got 5 out of 10 points for the correct answer. Another student who wrote down 13 got 8 points out of 10 because they showed all their little stickpeople to designate that they did work… I guess in the real world when someone gives you change of .70 instead of 7.00 you immediately say- That’s fine I know you did the work and it’s OK if you don’t know how to do basic math…
- Pluto is now recognized as a dwarf planet. As new information comes to light, science updates its books and definition. That is progress because we know what was wrong before, or right before because we are able to garner more evidence. (fyi- there is no sarcasm intended here. It is a smart to fix/amend things when more info is gathered. No one made a mistake. They just didn’t know certain things before)
- They’re (they are) going to the movies. Would you put that book over there? Do you want to go to their house for dinner? Does it matter if we use the correct words? I don’t know. But my daughter now ends her emails with the pronouns she/her uses …
- A constitutional or federal democratic republic. Does it matter? Probably not. But does it really matter how we interpret things like the constitution?
Even numbers like 5+5 make me spaz out xD
Man. I hate math.
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Many of us at work now have our pronouns at the end of our emails
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I get it. But you can’t say the definition of one word matters while the definition of another doesn’t…we need to be consistent. I’ve gotten trolled for taking definitions at their literal meaning…it’s one way or the other
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And it comes down to…words do matter. What we say, how we say it. Words count
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I don’t disagree with the fact that words matter
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I’m just saying it’s all gotten a little nuts about which words matter and which don’t. I want all words to matter equally and for them to stand for something. When I’m having a discussion and someone uses a word, I’ll ask them to define the word they’re using so I can figure out what they’re saying and where they’re going. I worry about too much time spent on things like flies and voice timber and not enough about substance
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My daughter was watching some panel where the moderator said that the American people don’t want a debate, they want the fly. When did this type of behavior come to define us? I mean really, we get what we deserve. Sorry I’m ranting, but when I see what people think/post about I get incensed.
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It is sad that people cared more about the fly than the debate. The country is in a sad state
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I know.
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We have become a nation of distractible, high strung, nippy puppies.
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Excellent analogy
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I just saw someone do that on a work email, what is the purpose of doing that ?
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It normalized the sharing of pronouns so those with less obvious identities aren’t singled out in sharing their signifiers – participating in a common courtesy instead of immediately identifying those sharing as “other”
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thanks
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#2 – I heartily agree with – plus Pluto has always been my fav planet since childhood.
Have a great weekend, LA
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You too!!
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A quiz before I finish my coffee??!!?? Not fair!!! 😉❤️
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😉pop quiz!
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Haha – I’m glad I’m not taking any math classes like that!
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I know!!
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Still amazes me that you can get right answer and be dinged for that many points
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That is ridiculous
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I know!!
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Yep. My son once got a D on a really good paper for failing to follow the rubric.
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What we choose to focus on is getting harder and harder to deal with. We ignore facts. We reinterpret things that we do not like. We arbitrarily alter things to fit what we want them to instead of what they are. And then we wonder why we are here now…
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Yup. That’s about right.
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Never mind the difference between ‘there’ and ‘their’……….. how can people not understand an apostrophe in ‘you’re’ is for a good reason? Drives me up the wall when I read something and they only ever using ‘your’…………… honestly, I can only think it’s laziness!
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Lol, should read ‘…………..and they are only……’ 😀
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I don’t know what it is
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Don’t get me started on the math stuff. If we could go back in time to when my kids were in elementary school I would have written an 1000 word essay as a comment. I did a bit of protesting about this approach. Someone actually gave me promotional materials comparing the old way vs. the new way that stated the old way was too focused on getting the right answer—totally baffling.
I remember my son getting problems like 22+22 and being expected to write down his thought process for solving the problem. His math skills were way ahead of his writing skills—it was so frustrating for him.
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I taught my daughter old school to supplement her new approach and I made her memorize her times table. At the end of the day she had an exceptional SAT math score and knows how to figure out the tip at a restaurant… the new way is ridiculous for 75% of the students. 2+2=4 because it does.
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I did some supplementing with my kids as well.
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One of my friends specifically decided to send his kid to private school because he doesn’t like how public teaches math. And he’s a former math teacher
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I remember being required to show my process in geometry class. Had to write what I did plus show numbers of what I did. It took forever to do my homework, and taught me that I’m not a person who deals well with busywork.
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It’s redundant and misses the point entirely. Sometimes show don’t tell is not the right approach
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I would really not like it if the person who said 5+5 is 8 went on to become an engineer, physician or other professional who needed to be exact and correct in their calculations. That’s crazy. It’s math….it’s either correct or incorrect and I really don’t care how you got there. They’re, there or their….don’t get me started….I have to instruct college seniors who sometimes don’t know the difference. Pluto will always be a planet in my mind. It probably will become one again because….everything is relevant, right? Democracy, in it’s purest form, is when the majority has almost limitless power over the minority. This is why we have a Republic where states elect representatives to make laws, following the Constitution and Bill of Rights…which protect rights from being changed by the will of the majority. Clear as mud?! xoxo
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I know…yet…I read experts every day who challenge these basic, clearly stated fundamentals…
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Do you think it’s because we’re raising generations of people who can’t handle being told they’re incorrect?
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Yes. Add that to everybody gets a trophy….
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I knew all the answers before I read yours. I must have missed when Pluto wasn’t a planet.
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Yeah…poor Pluto…
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On that last point, it’s AMAZING how many people have become experts on the Constitution when they argue against having to wear a mask. . .
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I read something that over half of the citizens couldn’t pass the citizenship test….so mind boggling…
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Wow. Just . . . wow
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I know
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I’m glad Pluto was given it’s planet status again.
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Well, dwarf planet, but yeah…
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I don’t understand the she/her approach. The university where I was an adjunct for the past two years is having heavy layoffs of many including adjuncts. Glad that she/her found another job in the school system. Have a great day.
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You’re not supposed to use pronouns without knowing how the person wants to be referred. So if you’re sending an email you make your specific choice clear
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I guess I am behind the times. So I want to be referred to as her. Does that mean they understand with my email by her coming first.
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The way my daughter does it is her name as the bottom with her pronouns below it
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Okay. Well thanks for the tip. I will keep with my name and Mrs.
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I am happy to hear that Pluto has regained status as a planet–even if dwarf is added to it. I was personally affronted by the declaration that Pluto was no longer a planet. All those years and then his (yes, Pluto is male) identity was stripped from him overnight. I could hear him whimpering in the cold dark–well I could have if sound traveled through space like it does in science fiction movies.
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I know! It was so sad!
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