Friday, March 13, 2015

Garbage from Tenmarks

This comes from a website called Tenmarks, which is being used as "on-line homework" by many public schools.

Ok, it says that it's "not drawn to scale", but come on!!  Look at the segment that is labeled 2 units and the segment that is labeled 10 units.  How is this geometry education?

Never mind that fact that, in geometry, students should have a drawing and pencil so that they can mark measurements.  Geometry tests on a computer are simply not the same!



This is just one of many companies that quickly put out "Common Core Aligned" support material.  The rushed material, never scrutinized, is truly sub par.  To these companies, making the work challenging means: make it hard and tricky.  

This is not the SAT folks!  Leave "hard and tricky" to them.

No wonder the students this year seem so disillusioned!