Arithmetic in Finnish schools

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

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

sotka_ · 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

Rosamunda · 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.

sinikala · 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.

Rosamunda · 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).

Upphew · 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.

Rip · 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.

Pursuivant · 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

AldenG · 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.)

Pursuivant · 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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