Arithmetic in Finnish schools

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Arithmetic in Finnish schools

Post by sinikala » Wed Nov 16, 2016 7:47 pm

Just reading the article below on the YLE website ... about Finnish teachers face more planning and less holiday pay...

http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/firms ... rs/9295836

There is a photo of a teacher doing something on a blackboard ... is it supposed to be subtraction? Or am I missing something? :?:


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Re: Arithmetic in Finnish schools

Post by StellaS » Wed Nov 16, 2016 9:21 pm

It's subtraction, but there's an error.

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Post by sotka_ » Wed Nov 16, 2016 9:27 pm

sinikala wrote:Just reading the article below on the YLE website ... about Finnish teachers face more planning and less holiday pay...

http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/firms ... rs/9295836

There is a photo of a teacher doing something on a blackboard ... is it supposed to be subtraction? Or am I missing something? :?:
Subtraction indeed
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Post by Rosamunda » Wed Nov 16, 2016 9:49 pm

...but probably not taken in a Finnish school. I haven't seen a blackboard in a Finnish school for years.

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Post by sinikala » Wed Nov 16, 2016 9:58 pm

Rosamunda wrote:...but probably not taken in a Finnish school. I haven't seen a blackboard in a Finnish school for years.
So the photographer - Jyrki Lyytikkä - had to go abroad to photograph a teacher who can't do a simple subtraction?
Presumably the YLE editor can't subtract either or it would have been weeded out.

Hope the woman in the photo isn't a real teacher or she's going to be pretty embarrassed.
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Post by Rosamunda » Thu Nov 17, 2016 10:52 am

Maybe it's one of those deliberate mistakes that teachers do to check who's actually awake in the classroom. Anyway, it's not an error... More like a typo, she just left off the 1 (thousand).

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Post by Upphew » Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:43 pm

Rosamunda wrote:Maybe it's one of those deliberate mistakes that teachers do to check who's actually awake in the classroom. Anyway, it's not an error... More like a typo, she just left off the 1 (thousand).
Might be deliberate, but more likely she wrote 6 under the line when she should have done it over the seven.
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Post by Rip » Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:48 pm

Rosamunda wrote:...but probably not taken in a Finnish school. I haven't seen a blackboard in a Finnish school for years.
i have. Depends on school and teacher, I guess.

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Post by Pursuivant » Fri Nov 18, 2016 8:05 pm

The 6 should go over, not under... no wonder the PISA scores are screwed.. it should be a 2
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Post by AldenG » Fri Nov 18, 2016 8:24 pm

The method is correct and most importantly, the page is neat.

So 3/4 credit. (Slight deduction for incorrect result.)
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Re: Arithmetic in Finnish schools

Post by Pursuivant » Sat Nov 19, 2016 10:16 pm

My dad and sis went ballistic over the "division angle" they introduced in the 70's... theups and downs go differently as in theild up/down
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