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?
Arithmetic in Finnish schools
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It's subtraction, but there's an error.
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Subtraction indeedsinikala 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?
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...but probably not taken in a Finnish school. I haven't seen a blackboard in a Finnish school for years.
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So the photographer - Jyrki Lyytikkä - had to go abroad to photograph a teacher who can't do a simple subtraction?Rosamunda wrote:...but probably not taken in a Finnish school. I haven't seen a blackboard in a Finnish school for years.
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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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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Might be deliberate, but more likely she wrote 6 under the line when she should have done it over the seven.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).
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i have. Depends on school and teacher, I guess.Rosamunda wrote:...but probably not taken in a Finnish school. I haven't seen a blackboard in a Finnish school for years.
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The 6 should go over, not under... no wonder the PISA scores are screwed.. it should be a 2
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The method is correct and most importantly, the page is neat.
So 3/4 credit. (Slight deduction for incorrect result.)
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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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