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So. Why is SIYE down? This irritates me. I was going to post fic.
Interwebz fail.
Work tomorrow. It's challenging but I think I can get through it. Maybe. All my kids are screwed in the head. It makes it really hard.
I was told by Miss-I'm-An-Attention-Seeker on Friday that I just explained the maths all badly and (I quote) "We should get my mum to come in an explain it. She'd do it better than you."
I then ripped into her for not actually *looking* at the demonstration I was doing with the current small group of four students. "Maybe if you were actually paying attention instead of staring at the carpet and playing with your eraser, the explanation would have made sense!"
She was suitably chastised and ... wouldn't you know it, actually got the concept after the fourth explanation of the concept.
It was scale. You know, if you want to represent a line of 1km when working with a scale 1cm=5km you use 2mm to draw 1km. So if you want 6km you draw 6 lots of 2 mm ... which is you know ... 12 mm. I've been working on scale for three weeks and, quite frankly rather discouraged that they still don't seem to understand. I even asked the teacher support worker in there at the time. 'Am I explaining this badly? Because I don't think I am explaining this badly. I thought it was pretty clear." She was like, no, it's pretty clear.
They are just stupendously lazy. Seriously I hate to say it but their work ethic is sooooooooooo low that they just expect it handed to them or something and won't spend the time to work something out even if they have all the tools. If I ask them a question that is easily calculated they just put their hands up adn guess. When I tried to go through a concept one step at a time so everyone could do the work i got kids just jumping to guessing the answer.
No. I want you to know HOW to do this, not just stick up your hand and randomly say "40!"
I want SIYE to come back up. I knew I shoulda posted it elsewhere ... :P
Interwebz fail.
Work tomorrow. It's challenging but I think I can get through it. Maybe. All my kids are screwed in the head. It makes it really hard.
I was told by Miss-I'm-An-Attention-Seeker on Friday that I just explained the maths all badly and (I quote) "We should get my mum to come in an explain it. She'd do it better than you."
I then ripped into her for not actually *looking* at the demonstration I was doing with the current small group of four students. "Maybe if you were actually paying attention instead of staring at the carpet and playing with your eraser, the explanation would have made sense!"
She was suitably chastised and ... wouldn't you know it, actually got the concept after the fourth explanation of the concept.
It was scale. You know, if you want to represent a line of 1km when working with a scale 1cm=5km you use 2mm to draw 1km. So if you want 6km you draw 6 lots of 2 mm ... which is you know ... 12 mm. I've been working on scale for three weeks and, quite frankly rather discouraged that they still don't seem to understand. I even asked the teacher support worker in there at the time. 'Am I explaining this badly? Because I don't think I am explaining this badly. I thought it was pretty clear." She was like, no, it's pretty clear.
They are just stupendously lazy. Seriously I hate to say it but their work ethic is sooooooooooo low that they just expect it handed to them or something and won't spend the time to work something out even if they have all the tools. If I ask them a question that is easily calculated they just put their hands up adn guess. When I tried to go through a concept one step at a time so everyone could do the work i got kids just jumping to guessing the answer.
No. I want you to know HOW to do this, not just stick up your hand and randomly say "40!"
I want SIYE to come back up. I knew I shoulda posted it elsewhere ... :P