Teacher marked correct work as incorrect

[MillionToOneChances]

This has been happening a lot lately, but today feels worse as the school's maths coordinator was taking the lesson. My DC had written that 36 was the square root of 1296. Maths coordinator marked it incorrect and said the correct answer was 936.

AIBU to be really frustrated? These incidents are really knocking his faith in school. I know he's a kid and the teacher is just a human being, but my DC does have form for being unfeasibly good at multiplication so a little faith wouldn't have gone amiss if it wasn't an easy sum for the teacher.

[Jux]

That's the first one I did, Million! I got a bit hooked and did 2 more, MS121 and MTsomething or other or something like that . It gets hard very quickly, but I loved it! I think it was MS121 which had the 11yo, special case I think. MU123 is a joy; he sounds like he'd just devour it!

Integration, that is shocking . DD used to correct teachers' spelling in tests in primary. Her usual teacher was fine, but they quite often had a supply teacher who may have been dyslexic her spelling was so bad. You'd think, though, that if you're writing the correct spellings on the board for pupils to mark their own, that you'd make darn sure that you get them right. It's very basic. That goes for every subject.

[Integration14]

Yes anyone, and someone are pronouns, but the teacher thinks that they are nouns. Too and therefore are adverbs. How can my daughter pass this SPAG test?

[Thumbwitch]

I see "later" is now an adverb as well. Didn't know that.

[Thumbwitch]

I should have, of course. But didn't.

[MillionToOneChances]

I'd have said offhand it was an adjective. Clearly I'd have been wrong! And that's why I always check if not 100% sure - no harm in teaching them to look things up, check on a calculator, or anything else indicating a questioning mind...

[DadDadDad]

Surely, later can be an adjective...
he caught a later train

or an adverb...
the train arrived later
I'll see you later (same role as tomorrow, sometime)

[MillionToOneChances]

Back to a PPs point about being clear - yes, it's both, so I'd have been wrong to declare it just an adjective.

On the plus side, if there's one thing I'm conveying to my kids it's a willingness to admit my failings and show them how to learn from them

[Integration14]

The teaching assistant used to mark the homework of my daughter. This is some of the comments she wrote ( english homework)
You need to work in your presentation, neat and nice writing.
Make sense if your sentences making
Range of diffirent opener in the spelling.
Good understanding of text.
Use part of question in your answer.

[Stealthpolarbear]

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"I'm still smarting over an English teacher who corrected my "grisly" to "grizzly" in a horror story I wrote."

It wasnt a horror story about bears by any chance. ..? :o

[MillionToOneChances]

Oh god. And to think I've cringed over the usage of the wrong 'your'.

[Integration14]

Some pictures:

[Integration14]

Another one

[MillionToOneChances]

Wow. What response did you get to your corrections?

[Thumbwitch]

I know what she means when she says "Use part of question in your answer" - she means to start the answer with the relevant part of the question, so if the question is "what do you think Queen Victoria did in her spare time?" then the answer should start "I think Queen Victoria did XYZ in her spare time" not just "XYZ".

The rest are just bizarre. And "neat and nice" is the wrong way around.

at grisly being changed to grizzly - that would make me pretty pissed off too!

[Thumbwitch]

Saw this today - with a little change, it might apply to some of the teachers mentioned here!

[MillionToOneChances]

[MillionToOneChances]

Incidentally, the Usborne maths and science dictionaries are blinking awesome.

[MillionToOneChances]

Can I just reiterate, I know some utterly brilliant teachers. Sadly, none of them are currently teaching my son.

[PenelopePitstops]

The powers of ten is confusing because technically they aren't increasing it by a factor of 10 either. They are multiplying the number by 10.

I often refer to multiplying by 10,100,1000 as multiplying by powers of ten (referring to the 10,100,1000).

[MillionToOneChances]

Ok, I'm happy to accept that I've got it wrong by inferring that she meant a factor of 10 or 100 - DS said she meant multiply by 10 or 100.

What she said was 'to the power of 10, 100, 1000.' Perhaps she meant ten to the power 2, 3 etc, but that's not what she said.

[MillionToOneChances]

He just clarified. She said '3 to the power 10' '3 to the power 100' etc.

[MillionToOneChances]

'1.7 to the power 10 would be 17'

Is it just my crappy maths? DadDad? Princess?

If I've got this wrong I need to correct myself with him before he writes me off too

[ChippingInAutumnLover]

Integration

That looks like 'Peer Review' to me. Are you sure the writing in red is actually the teachers? The 9yo's class does a lot of Peer Review stuff.

[MillionToOneChances]

Definitely not just me/maths boy

[MillionToOneChances]

Chipping, would they stamp it 'marked by TA'? Read like a TA with English as a second language to me.