Eric the Blue

I was looking at some 5th-grade math tests that kids took at school today. You can see how, after the above problem is set out, students are instructed, “Write your answer and your work or explanation in the space below.” The main exhibit of this 5th-grader’s response cracked me up:

I can’t Explain, I allreaty am trying my best! and It’s hard

Big circle around it. When I was finished laughing, I looked at the rest of his work, and it’s perfect. Easy to love a self-effacing 5th-grader who gets the right answer to a somewhat challenging problem. This was the twelfth and last problem on the test. He might have been coming to the end of his endurance.

At Valley View, we learn firsthand to hate ICE, and also how to calculate the volumes of rectangular prisms. In Ed-speak, I believe this is referred to as “whole child education.”