• OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    22 天前

    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.

    • Zwiebel@feddit.org
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      22 天前

      That’s not how csvs work though. Everyone knows you sometimes use dots as decimals but as separators in column 3 and 17, but not in rows that rhyme with their first entry except on tuesdays.

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        21 天前

        You can always use the Excel API to read the file, but make sure you set the computer’s locale to Turkish before you start.

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          21 天前

          as a turkish, this localization difference horrifies me every time I need to engage in something with a dot/comma because I never have any idea which one is which and refuse to look it up to put an end to it for good.

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    22 天前

    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.

    • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 天前

      Or they are overly literal and second guessed their initial reading of it. Something I could definitely see an autistic or ADHD kid doing.

    • 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.

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        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 15 items my circles just turn into a long chained spiral.

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      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

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        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.

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          22 天前

          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?

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            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. ✔️

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      21 天前

      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.

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            21 天前

            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

            • Axolotl@feddit.it
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              21 天前

              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
              
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    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.