High School Classes of 2004 2005 2006...

[Mike Teacher]

...I spent all day today, and will spend all today tomorrow, scoring a standardized test that quite a few of you may have taken.

And oh my god, things do NOT look good.

MAY have taken is actually true = Confidentiality Agreements Up the ASS = all I am saying is one of the questions I was grading dealt with:

heating two cubes a metal, one weighing 1 kg, and the other weighing 2 kg.

If someone asked a human being to give a SHORT, reasonable answer as to WHY, if you heated the two cubes with the same amount of heat energy, the one with a mass of 1 kg would start to glow before the 2 kg one.

It's a simple enough Q: WHY?

I can't say the results, but...

maybe some people can restore my faith in the future by answering.

Fancy science answers to simple questions = dumb

Simple science answers = more gooder

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Because one is dense and the other isn't?

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[SatCam]

one has less mass therefore less matter for heat to travel through

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[Heavy]

the smaller thing burned faster [probally because it had some piece of wood in it or maybe a flammable liquid er somethin

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[keithy_19]

BECAUSE.

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[TheGameHHH]

how is this question, at least the relevance of it, in the small portion you graded (which certainly does not represent a majority of high schoolers across the country), indicitive of all the high school classes for '04, '05, & '06 being dumb?


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Either way, I got it right, and I owned you all

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[ADF]

The smaller one will burn faster because everyone knows short things have bad tempers.

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ADF, is that your excuse for your erectile problems?

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[S-man]

I'm glad I got out in 2003!!, where do you teach, is it in a "rap community"??That could have something to do with it.

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[Mike Teacher]

indicitive of all the high school classes for '04, '05, & '06 being dumb?


Excellent point. And I agree.

And if there is blame to spread around, it's not the students.

But sadly, since leaving the Big Money of high-school teaching, I've been grading standardized tests in all subjects from 4th to 12th for approaching a year. Not a lifetime, given.

Having said that: the test people would have taken

smaller
less mass
less weight
less matter to heat
fewer atoms
energy transferred faster

and a few dozen others...

And under half, well under can give an answer.

Perhaps a second example: for a 4th Grader:

You buy a book that costs $3.57. You pay for it with a $5 bill...

What follows is a three-part question:

a. How much change do you receive.

Id tell you b and c, but it doesn't really matter for the 50% that could not answer part a, such that that they could go on to parts b and c.

ps: They had calculators.





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This message was edited by Mike Teacher on 11-2-03 @ 5:36 AM

[Bill From Yorktown]

my quick hack shot before I read the other answers -
1 kg block has less mass (read as molecules) than the 2kg block - so each molecule absorbs more heat (read as kinetic energy) in the 1kg than the 2kg - the 2kg having more molecules, spreads the same amount of heat across more molecules, so each one gets less of the energy, hence each one heats up less, with a given amount of heat. It would take more heat (in this experiment, it would take longer) to heat up to the same temp.


You buy a book that costs $3.57. You pay for it with a $5 bill... ps: They had calculators.


sad..... (I went back and added this comment)

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This message was edited by Bill From Yorktown on 11-2-03 @ 8:50 AM

[NewYorkDragons80]

This is shocking news considering yours truly just got out of high school and the class of 2003 had the best national average on the SATs in history.

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[billyio]

Class of 1990 checking in --Huuah.

I can't believe the test takers could not answer the $5 question. Now I am very frightened indeed.

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[SatCam]

So Mike, can you give us the correct answer?

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[The Chairman]

And if there is blame to spread around, it's not the students.

But sadly, since leaving the Big Money of high-school teaching, I've been grading standardized tests in all subjects from 4th to 12th for approaching a year. Not a lifetime, given.

I agree. It's not the students. And in my perfect world, you'd be out of a job, because there would be no standardized tests for you to grade.

SAT's should die a quick death.
Class rankings should die a quick death.

Our educational system is broken.

I'm going to home school my kids hopefully, but it's not for everyone.


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[SatCam]

I dont need no education!

Seriously, I've learned the same shit almost every year. Review is a fucking waste of time... why wast 1/4 of the year on god dammed review?

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