Quick, advice needed on possible teacher mistake

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Andy_R

Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
Location
County Durham
and, TBH, grades and groupings at primary school matter f@ck all at secondary school. It is widely recognised that primary school SATS have cfuk all to do with what groups they are put in, it's all about the primary school reaching false objectives set by OFSTED
 

classic33

Leg End Member
[QUOTE 3315282, member: 45"]I couldn't find the internet in the eighties.

Give me a question I can't find the answer to on t'intenet...[/QUOTE]

Seven will give Eight, whilst Six will give Nine.
However to get get Seven requires Three,
whilst to get Six requires Five.
 
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Profpointy

Legendary Member
I googled the answer to one of my daughter's homework questions, because as it turns out I am not smarter than a 10 year old. Imagine my surprise when I found that the teacher had taken the homework off the internet and the answer sheet was there. My daughter then googled the other three bits of homework and they all are off the internet and all have handy answer sheets, she did not read them but showed me she had found them. Naturally I banned her from using the laptop till homework is done.

I have written the full url for each of the bits of homeworks on the homeworks and have noted for her teacher that she has not seen the answers themselves

Do I leave it as is, do I even make her do the maths homework due in on thursday if the answers are available to all the kids in the class in 10 seconds flat? Is it normal for year 6 teachers to take homework off the internet? One even has the site url and a copyright notice on it.

This wouldn't have happened in the olden days. You'd have had to find the answers in a book instead
 

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
Chances are my 3 children were set similar home works over the years, if I had wanted to we could have looked up the older children's books to see the answers.
 
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Learnincurve

Learnincurve

Senior Member
Location
Chesterfield
Is it really too much to ask that a teacher does not set homework kids can find the answers to in 10 seconds? Really? Is it too much to ask that they google themselves to make sure they can't?
 

KneesUp

Guru
Is it really too much to ask that a teacher does not set homework kids can find the answers to in 10 seconds? Really? Is it too much to ask that they google themselves to make sure they can't?
Is it really too much to ask that kids do their homework themselves rather than using google, or if they can't do that that their parents supervise them?
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
This worries me, why would schools not have CDs to print worksheets off or books to photocopy?

Have you seen the price of resource CDs and their annual license fees? Photocopying is not a low cost option. If your daughter is ten years old then she will be in a primary school whose budget is stretched with core provisions never mind paying exorbitant licensing fees for resource CDs which have the self same questions that are available for free of the Internet.

It's great that you made your daughter do the homework without the answer sheets at her disposal and I'd not lose sleep over those whose access to the 'easy option' ins unfettered. They will reap the rewards of their idleness in examinations where there no answer sheets to copy from.

Comparing past and present practises is futile. Kids are living in an information age and it's normal for kids to look for answers on the Internet when doing homework. The answers to maths problems rarely show how they are achieved and it would show up in the submitted work through lack of evidence of any working out.

Furthermore the bulk of learning and assessment takes place under teacher scrutiny in the classroom and homeworks tend to be reinforcement exercises.

I really don't see any grounds for getting annoyed.
 

KneesUp

Guru
Envy?

Homework in the 1980's was a lot easier than the homework that I got in the 1970s. You had calculators. I had slide rules and log tables.
I had to make my own paper and do my homework in the dark because candles were too expensive :smile:
 
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Learnincurve

Learnincurve

Senior Member
Location
Chesterfield
We had hand written homework sheets in blue ink copied on one of those big roller things in primary school. In secondary school we had an actual photocopier and again it was either hand written or taken from a book that only the teacher had with the answers in the back.
 

buggi

Bird Saviour
Location
Solihull
I made her do the homework due in tomorrow. I'm not questioning the need for homework, I am questioning the need for her to do homework where everyone else has cheated to find the answers. I would rather she have different homework not taken off the internet.
just bcoz other people may cheat doesn't mean its not worth her time. If others cheat they are only cheating themselves
 
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