I am starting to get really busy at work again. It will probably be like this for the next few weeks. We have a big deadline coming up and I want to get my part of the work complete so I can be sure to be free for spring break. With so many hours to work, I did not have time to correct Kelly’s and Christian’s math last night. Lorena did it for me. Kelly and Christian were horrified when they saw that Lorena had marked just about everything they did wrong. It turns out that, in the schools in Lorena’s part of Mexico, correct answers are marked with a check, while incorrect answers are marked with an ‘X‘. That is just WRONG! Everyone knows the correct way to mark a paper is to us a ‘C‘ for problems worked correctly. The check is reserved for those problems with incorrect answers. There is mass rebellion occurring in the household, but Lorena says she is not about to change. If she is going to correct papers she is going to do it her way. She says her way is the right way. If we do not like it we can correct the papers ourselves.
Christian
Dad seems to have discovered the ‘bold’ function on the WYSIWYG editor.
Why, for the life of me, I’ve never heard of anyone using a “C” to denote “correct”! I’m wondering if that whole “C” thing isn’t some sort of fluffy psychobabble devised to make dumb kids feel better. Where I come from “C” is a grade, and not a very good one. Maybe all those years, Ken, when you thought you were getting everything correct you were just really getting a C grade?
At any rate, Ken, you should know by now that the correct answer is always “Yes, Dear”.
Oh btw, the psychobabble remark was not directed at any particular children but rather is commentary on our education system.
It’s OK. We were going to have to come out with the truth someday anyway. We are so bad at math that Dad really DOES just put the C there to make us feel better! 🙂
Maybe that is why all the other engineers know how to add and subtract so well compared to me?
Carolyn
Go for it Lorena!! Yes! Hey I like your house and everything we have seen on the blog. We have had winter-with lots of snow. Now it is melting and we are down to about 1 foot left. CC
Oh yeah, sure Ken, the kind of math you do, who would know whether it’s right or wrong.
Eric, that is the only way I keep my job. No one really knows what I am doing (me included)!