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.
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.
What does the red fish squiggly on the side mean? Correct or incorrect?
I’ve had teachers who draw X’s fast enough they just do it in one motion and it looks as above.
Looks like an alpha, so I assume this is all correct.
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 a 15 items my circles just turn into a long chained spiral.
May I ask what category a “pink collar” profession is?
Pink collar jobs are those which, historically, have been considered to be “women’s work”. Jobs like Teaching, Nursing, Daycare, etc.
The one that involves circling “yes” for “I did the thing” down 15 items
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. ✔️
It’s an alpha and short for: αλλ ριγητ
In addition to what others have said (this is an X), American teachers traditionally use red pen to mark incorrect answers/correct mistakes.
The teacher marked these as incorrect.
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.
A. B. C.
Are just undefined variables, and therefore a number. It’s just that we haven’t defined what those numbers are so they can still be any real number including the smallest number
Error!
prog.c: In function ‘main’: prog.c:4:8: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘.’ token 4 | int A.; | ^ prog.c:4:8: error: expected expression before ‘.’ token prog.c:5:8: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘.’ token 5 | int B.; | ^ prog.c:5:8: error: expected expression before ‘.’ token prog.c:6:8: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘.’ token 6 | int C.; | ^ prog.c:6:8: error: expected expression before ‘.’ token
When I was an elementary teacher I would have let this slide for sure. I would have explained next time I’ll count it wrong though.
If the numbers counting the questions are part of it, then only 1 should be circled.
