23 Comments on This kid is smarter than the test writers
Ha ha ha!
Tricky little devil!
izlamo delenda est …
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It’s funny what kids will come up with. I hope the teacher gave him an A, but the teacher would have to have figured out what the kid did.
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A potential genius at work.
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And the next Obama foundation college degree goes to,,,
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Next thing you know he’ll buy a guitar to punish his ma.
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Sorry. Test instructions are: Write these WORDS in alphabetical order.
The student wrote the LETTERS in alpha order.
Still, I would have given the student a point for ingenuity!
PS, Instructions are often ignored by students – to their peril. I have failed essays that were achingly brilliant. But they didn’t follow instructions. They are not arbitrary; it shows that the student can understand what they are asked to do.
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My 4-year-old son was selected to participate in one of the “Laugh Floor” shows at Walt Disney World. During the show, one of the performers asked him what he was going to be when he grows up.
He said, “Bigger”.
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‘During the show, one of the performers asked him what he was going to be when he grows up.
He said, “Bigger”.
Hope you don’t follow your visit down there up at the Rhino Exhibit And ‘Making Contact’ With One Of The Animals.
Sounds like a smart kid, but might come off in the wrong way there.
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@Claudia — With all due respect, he did “write” each word in alphabetic order. It would have been clear if the instructions had said “list” these words in alphabetic order in the spaces provided.
I see a future lawyer.
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Hooray for the kid. He hasn’t been brainwashed yet into only thinking the way the school system wants him to think, in conformity. His brain is still open to new ideas. He can work on following the instructions later, if he wants.
I’ve been fond of this story since first reading it ~ 37 years ago.
However, it was told in slightly different form in the book where I first read it.
” …, I asked the student if he really didn’t know the answer to the problem. He admitted that he did, but that he was so fed up with college instructors trying to teach him how to think and to use critical thinking, … “
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Depends on the meaning of what is is.
-Little Billy Clinton.
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Nice link, Blink!
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When my grandson was about to go into kindergarten we had a meeting with the teacher so she could get an idea of where the kids where in their development. Kindergarten teachers all have a candy coated voice and she said she would pour some blocks out on the table and asked if my grandson could pick them up and put them back in the container and count them. He picked up 2 at a time and counted 2,4,6,8,10,12. She stopped with the candy coated voice after that.
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The little punk clearly needs to be put on Ritalin. That’s what most teachers think, today.
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Never invite this kid to a “black tie only” event.
He is a literalist.
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Don’t I it get?
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The kid’s answer makes more sense than a twit tweet from Mz. Ocasio-Cortez.
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Hilarious. As is the Barometer Story.
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I was one of those smart-ass little kids myself. We had learned block letters in kindergarten, so on the first day of first grade, our teacher (Mrs. Hislop – I’ll never forget!) wrote each student’s first name in pencil in cursive (yes, cursive in 1st grade) on a piece of construction paper, handed each of us our paper, and instructed us to “write over your name with each of your crayons.” (We had boxes of eight, IIRC.)
A little later she came by my desk, saw the paper just as she’d produced it, and asked why I hadn’t done as she asked. “But I did, Mrs. Hislop!”
“I don’t see any crayon color on the paper, young man,” she declared. “Now do it as I said: write over your name. This time I’ll watch.”
So I did again what I had done the first time. I took a crayon from the box and, holding it about a half inch OVER MY NAME I traced out the letters.
She had the good sense to be amused.
True story!
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Everybody laughs at this shit now. When I did it 30 years ago they put me in the brown reading group next to the boiler room.
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David Hogg’s application to Harvard.
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The kid doesn’t follow other people’s directions very well. The kid thinks outside the box. The kid’s printing skills are lousy.
It’s a boy.
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There’s quite an urban legend that accompanies the Barometer Question story, aka Angles on a Pin essay.
One is that the smart (or smart-ass) student was Niels Bohr.
Part of or one of the morals to the story is there is more than one correct answer and creative problem solving should not be snuffed out or discouraged by the education system for scientific studies to be effective organized common sense to find good, better and optimal answers to subjects of enquiry.
Ha ha ha!
Tricky little devil!
izlamo delenda est …
It’s funny what kids will come up with. I hope the teacher gave him an A, but the teacher would have to have figured out what the kid did.
A potential genius at work.
And the next Obama foundation college degree goes to,,,
Next thing you know he’ll buy a guitar to punish his ma.
Sorry. Test instructions are: Write these WORDS in alphabetical order.
The student wrote the LETTERS in alpha order.
Still, I would have given the student a point for ingenuity!
PS, Instructions are often ignored by students – to their peril. I have failed essays that were achingly brilliant. But they didn’t follow instructions. They are not arbitrary; it shows that the student can understand what they are asked to do.
My 4-year-old son was selected to participate in one of the “Laugh Floor” shows at Walt Disney World. During the show, one of the performers asked him what he was going to be when he grows up.
He said, “Bigger”.
‘During the show, one of the performers asked him what he was going to be when he grows up.
He said, “Bigger”.
Hope you don’t follow your visit down there up at the Rhino Exhibit And ‘Making Contact’ With One Of The Animals.
Sounds like a smart kid, but might come off in the wrong way there.
@Claudia — With all due respect, he did “write” each word in alphabetic order. It would have been clear if the instructions had said “list” these words in alphabetic order in the spaces provided.
I see a future lawyer.
Hooray for the kid. He hasn’t been brainwashed yet into only thinking the way the school system wants him to think, in conformity. His brain is still open to new ideas. He can work on following the instructions later, if he wants.
I’ve been fond of this story since first reading it ~ 37 years ago.
However, it was told in slightly different form in the book where I first read it.
https://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~steve/astrophysics/webpages/barometer_story.htm .
” …, I asked the student if he really didn’t know the answer to the problem. He admitted that he did, but that he was so fed up with college instructors trying to teach him how to think and to use critical thinking, … “
Depends on the meaning of what is is.
-Little Billy Clinton.
Nice link, Blink!
When my grandson was about to go into kindergarten we had a meeting with the teacher so she could get an idea of where the kids where in their development. Kindergarten teachers all have a candy coated voice and she said she would pour some blocks out on the table and asked if my grandson could pick them up and put them back in the container and count them. He picked up 2 at a time and counted 2,4,6,8,10,12. She stopped with the candy coated voice after that.
The little punk clearly needs to be put on Ritalin. That’s what most teachers think, today.
Never invite this kid to a “black tie only” event.
He is a literalist.
Don’t I it get?
The kid’s answer makes more sense than a twit tweet from Mz. Ocasio-Cortez.
Hilarious. As is the Barometer Story.
I was one of those smart-ass little kids myself. We had learned block letters in kindergarten, so on the first day of first grade, our teacher (Mrs. Hislop – I’ll never forget!) wrote each student’s first name in pencil in cursive (yes, cursive in 1st grade) on a piece of construction paper, handed each of us our paper, and instructed us to “write over your name with each of your crayons.” (We had boxes of eight, IIRC.)
A little later she came by my desk, saw the paper just as she’d produced it, and asked why I hadn’t done as she asked. “But I did, Mrs. Hislop!”
“I don’t see any crayon color on the paper, young man,” she declared. “Now do it as I said: write over your name. This time I’ll watch.”
So I did again what I had done the first time. I took a crayon from the box and, holding it about a half inch OVER MY NAME I traced out the letters.
She had the good sense to be amused.
True story!
Everybody laughs at this shit now. When I did it 30 years ago they put me in the brown reading group next to the boiler room.
David Hogg’s application to Harvard.
The kid doesn’t follow other people’s directions very well. The kid thinks outside the box. The kid’s printing skills are lousy.
It’s a boy.
There’s quite an urban legend that accompanies the Barometer Question story, aka Angles on a Pin essay.
One is that the smart (or smart-ass) student was Niels Bohr.
Part of or one of the morals to the story is there is more than one correct answer and creative problem solving should not be snuffed out or discouraged by the education system for scientific studies to be effective organized common sense to find good, better and optimal answers to subjects of enquiry.
http://naturelovesmath-en.blogspot.com/2011/06/niels-bohr-barometer-question-myth.html .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer_question .