The thing is, the kid circled (then erased) the “correct” answer for the first two and started circling the right one for the last question… Then stopped.
So they totally got the assignment.
If the numbers counting the questions are part of it, then only 1 should be circled.
A great opportunity to use letters as the list item bullets
i.
ii.
iii.Roman numerals still count right?
Yeah to avoid any clever “gotcha” kids, use
A. B. C.
I think, technically, this is a comma-separated list, so the kid should have circled 1.39, 2.17, and 3.96 as the smallest numbers.
That’s not how csvs work though. Everyone knows you sometimes use dots as decimals but as separators in column 3 and 17, but not in rows that rhyme with their first entry except on tuesdays.
You can always use the Excel API to read the file, but make sure you set the computer’s locale to Turkish before you start.
What does the red fish squiggly on the side mean? Correct or incorrect?
It’s an alpha and short for: αλλ ριγητ
It’s an “X” to indicate incorrect answer. The teacher has 100+ papers to grade and a lesson plan to get together for tomorrow and doesn’t have time to make their marks look pretty.
I’m in a different pink collar profession and sometimes when I have an audit checklist to circle “yes” for “I did the thing” down 15 items my circles just turn into a long chained spiral.
I’ve had teachers who draw X’s fast enough they just do it in one motion and it looks as above.
X presumably means wrong?
Yep
Looks like an alpha, so I assume this is all correct.
I used to have a teacher (and multiple others since then) back in the 90s who also used the same squiggly to indicate correct answers. Not sure what the origin is, but I’ve also used it since
That’s interesting. I had the exact opposite experience in the same timeframe. Those are X’s written really fast and the pen doesn’t leave the page. I’ve only ever seen those marks used to indicate incorrect answers.
Now that I think about it, maybe the “correct” ones were rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, in which case I guess it might mean a quickly drawn V?
Yeah when I was in school it was X for wrong (with the loop as pictured) and check marks for correct. And a check mark can certainly look like a V when going fast. ✔️
