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Comment Re:apples and oranges (Score 1) 120

Are you trying to compare the number of people buying things, or the number of dollars spent,or some combination?
Although there are many more people in China, they are also much poorer.

More people are doing the spending yes. But they are also spending a greater percentage of their money than the equivalent US shopper. So that makes them more consumerist, which I think is the point of the article.

Comment Re:Pathetic! And here's why... (Score 1) 663

This is completely trivial, if you have been taught it.

If your taught
"whole" means the part by itself on one side of the = sign
"part I know" is the number on the other side of the = sign that you know
and the other nuber is the "part you dont know" (yet)

"part I know" "operator" "part I dont know" = "whole"
part I know is 5
its an addition question so +
part I dont know is x
whole is 6
5 + x = 6
x = 1

Its only confusing to you because you weren't shown how to understand the question.
(Or you really are dumber than a 1st grader...)

Is it a good test to give with no prior knowledge of how to do this? Of course not it would be stupid, many adults here are having trouble.
As a test to check if kids understand things they have already been shown to do, its perfectly adequate.

Look, this is ridiculous. I know nothing at all about writing tests, or about education in general

At least you're honest. So now you have a little knowledge, go back over your mindless rant and see if you can spot the errors.

Comment Re:How hard can that possibly be? (Score 1) 663

So now its a reading comprehension test that the kids are quite likely to fail.
You have tried to explain it, but used a completely different method to what they have been learning all year.

They spend all year learning about "whole" "part I know" "missing part"
And now you are prattling on about left, right, make the amount. Teacher why did you change all the words to gibberish?

When you write for an audience, you quickly come to understand that things you think are obvious aren't obvious to everyone

The audience are the students not some random shalshdotters.
The test is written for an audience, but that audience wasn't you, it would be obvious to everyone who payed attention in the class.

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Slacker writes: In a cringe inducing 4 minute video MSI, with apparent partners in bad taste Benq and Intel, reinforce one of the assumed mainstays of gamer culture — overt sexism. A studious looking young lady is transformed at "gaming time" into a bikini clad PC assembler. Complete with an awful overdubbed audio track and an MSI bust tattoo. How can this be seen as acceptable behavior for large multinational companies? How can the target market of this campaign escape the stereotype when the companies that drive the industry are pimping it — literally?

Comment Re:Pathetic! And here's why... (Score 1) 663

So then, it appears there’s no real relation between the pennies and the coffee cup, they’re just arbitrarily chosen icons used to test the understanding that a numeral (the 6 on the cup) can represent quantities of an item (the coins), and that one can do subtraction by converting the 5 coins to a number 5, which subtracted from the whole of 6 is the answer 1. Which is fine, as far as it goes, but nothing is gained from using coins and a cup, in fact it seems deliberately confusing!

How the fuck do you know the students weren't taught exactly this, with cups and pennies in their classes? If this is the way they were taught it then its completely trivial to understand what they are expected to do and comes down to simple number skills. i.e. exactly what they are supposed to do.

I’ve no background in education

You don't say...

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