Question
 | | | | | 
Sep 10, 2007, 04:57 PM
|  | Cars & Trucks Expert  | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Pale Blue Dot
Posts: 4,994
| | | Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
| | | | | | |
Answers
| | | | | |
Sep 11, 2007, 01:31 AM
|
#2
| | Food & Drink Expert
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 2,482
| You know we have just got this show here in the uk and it worrys the living daylights out of me that these adults are roaming the streets and couldnt even tell you weather a tomatoe is a fruit or not its certainly opened my eyes lol |
 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sep 11, 2007, 02:09 AM
|
#3
| | Ultra Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,043
| I know i m, but on second guess not really Hahaaahaaa  | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sep 11, 2007, 04:49 AM
|
#4
| | Cars & Trucks Expert
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Pale Blue Dot
Posts: 4,994
| They producers say that we'll forget two third of what we learn in formal education within a single year of discontinuing that formatted learning...
Lesson learned: never let your brain rest, or clearly it will rust... | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sep 11, 2007, 04:51 AM
|
#5
| | Science Expert
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: UK
Posts: 5,237
| Does anyone have access to an average fifth grader so that we can scientifically estimate the accuracy of this test? | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sep 11, 2007, 05:03 AM
|
#6
| | Cars & Trucks Expert
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Pale Blue Dot
Posts: 4,994
| Quote: |
Originally Posted by Capuchin Does anyone have access to an average fifth grader so that we can scientifically estimate the accuracy of this test? | It's not about the fifth grader... it's more a reflection on us grown-ups...
The kid's were baffled.. and she didn't know the length of a yard...!! | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sep 11, 2007, 05:05 AM
|
#7
| | Science Expert
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: UK
Posts: 5,237
| I don't understand how the site could reflect whether we're "smarter than a 5th grader", when a fifth grader would get more answers wrong! | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sep 11, 2007, 05:10 AM
|
#8
| | Cars & Trucks Expert
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Pale Blue Dot
Posts: 4,994
| The point they are making, humorously, is that stuff we were taught when we were young, not used in years, while common to a fifth grader, is lost on some who have taken on the adult world. Too much gets put between what we learned in school and what we use daily. I never thought I'd use geometry once I graduated, but in my life now, math shows up daily... | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sep 11, 2007, 05:11 AM
|
#9
| | Science Expert
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: UK
Posts: 5,237
| seems absurd to me  | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sep 11, 2007, 05:45 AM
|
#10
| | Cars & Trucks Expert
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Pale Blue Dot
Posts: 4,994
| Can I at least get a little chuckle out of ya for Jeff crack on home schooling?? | |
| | | | | | | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | Ask your question or search...
|
Search this Thread |
|
Bookmarks
| |
|
