And at the opposite end, in Junior High, I was accused of using a calculator on a math achievement test (administered in the guidance counselor's office, and he left me alone with it, and he left his calculator on the desk, and WHY?) because I didn't write out all my steps.
Seriously, for 11 * 17, they figured I cheated because I didn't write out the 170+17, so I must not have really done it. (My mother said to them, "Even *I* can do that one in my head, and I'm not good at math; Laura is.")
Then again, I got in trouble in math class when 315 * 12 was done as 3150 + 630 - it should have had three steps since the top number was three digits. Um. Seriously, people?
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Date: 2010-06-16 01:06 pm (UTC)Seriously, for 11 * 17, they figured I cheated because I didn't write out the 170+17, so I must not have really done it. (My mother said to them, "Even *I* can do that one in my head, and I'm not good at math; Laura is.")
Then again, I got in trouble in math class when 315 * 12 was done as 3150 + 630 - it should have had three steps since the top number was three digits. Um. Seriously, people?