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To think the teacher has gone mad - not me????

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andybat · 20/03/2011 18:18

Maths homework worksheet came home with DS on "time" and at the bottom was a Learning Top Tip - It says... "when drawing the hands on an analogue clock, make sure the hand that shows the hour is longer than the hand that shows the minutes. Hours are longer than minutes!"

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ButterflySally · 20/03/2011 18:20

Oh dear.

cairnterrier · 20/03/2011 18:21

Suboptimal at the very least....... Grin

LaurieFairyCake · 20/03/2011 18:21

That's the wrong way round, hour hand should be shorter surely?

Skinit · 20/03/2011 18:22

Oh my! I think you need to write to her!

GKlimt · 20/03/2011 18:22

Oops.

samay · 20/03/2011 18:23

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AtYourCervix · 20/03/2011 18:24

good theory though. shame it's wrong.

FreudianSlippery · 20/03/2011 18:24

Hahahahaha!

But also, OMG!!!

Bogeyface · 20/03/2011 18:25

Yes, I think a quiet word is in order if only to ascertain whether this is a new teaching method no one else has heard of!

desperatelyseekingsnoozes · 20/03/2011 18:25

Having read that wouldn't it be better that way around?

activate · 20/03/2011 18:26

quiet word? how are you going to manage a quiet word about that?

LOL

that's terrible Muriel

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andybat · 20/03/2011 18:27

But the theory is so good! That's what made me have to read it several times as I was beginning to doubt myself. It was on an actual worksheet which had been photocopied from a book, you start to think they must be right and maybe they changed it and everyone forgot to tell me!!

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GnomeDePlume · 20/03/2011 18:33

As DH said - how will you make an appointment you can both keep?

activate · 20/03/2011 18:51

rofl on appointment - they'll both have to use a digital clock I assume Grin

CadleCrap · 20/03/2011 18:54

By that reasoning it is 6 minutes to 11. Waaay past my bedtime

Night

CadleCrap · 20/03/2011 18:55
Melly19MummyToBe · 20/03/2011 18:59

Thats ridiculous! It's no wonder children aren't learning anything anymore. I took my DPs cousin age 6 to school once and one of the other kids in class called a tiger a lion, and I said "no, thats a tiger!" and the TEACHER said "Oh it doesn't matter, they're all the same!!" I was just Shock

Ineedalife · 20/03/2011 18:59

LOL at such a silly mistake.

We had one last week that said " 1 quarter of children in a school wear a jumper and half do not wear a jumper, what fraction wears a jumper"???Hmm

My homework hating 8 year old thought it was hilarious.Grin

ChippingInMistressSteamMop · 20/03/2011 19:05

For the love of god.

INAL - I can see how your one happened, it's easy to accidentally write jumper instead of cardigan when you are rushing - but to write a whole explanation that is wrong? FFS.

Goblinchild · 20/03/2011 19:05

It was photocopied out of a book?
So the error is the publishers, and poor editors.
The teacher was careless in not checking a printed resource for mistakes and taking it on trust.
Let's aim that blame accurately chaps.

Goblinchild · 20/03/2011 19:06

Although there is no excuse for the tiger/lion.

Ineedalife · 20/03/2011 19:09

Ours wasn't goblin, ours was hand made, including some well dodgy drawings.

Although to be fair ours could have been a reading test in disguiseGrin.

edam · 20/03/2011 19:09

INAL Grin what on earth did the teacher think the missing quarter were doing?

edam · 20/03/2011 19:10

(Lion/tiger thing would really piss me off as well. I have been known to correct people who call apes monkeys...)