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View Profile Speaking of school, I sat in on a MAP testing session for a 5th grade class since they had it in the computer lab where I'm usually working and I couldn't believe how dumb some of these kids are.
Now now, not everyone is as smart as you when you were in 5th grade. :D
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View Profile He just called you an idiot, Exile
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View Profile Speaking of school, I sat in on a MAP testing session for a 5th grade class since they had it in the computer lab where I'm usually working and I couldn't believe how dumb some of these kids are.
One of the questions was 5 pictures of objects - a stop sign, a basketball, a book, a triangle and something else I can't remember. Identify the sphere, it says. She chose the fucking book, the only one that wasn't even a basic shape. Later on it had a basic picture of a sphere and said Identify the Shape, she picked cylinder.
You have 24 apples. Your aunt gives you some more, and now you have 37. How many apples did your aunt give you? Well, you have 37, so obviously she gave you 51 fucking apples
There are 6 dolls for 3 children, each child gets an equal number of dolls. How many dolls does each child get? Did you guess 6? Congratulations, you are apparently just as intelligent as the NWEA expects a 5th grader to be because she got perfectly average scores at the end despite answering 90% of her questions as stupidly as these examples. Blows my fucking mind
...special school by any chance?
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View Profile I can kind of see how she got the first question wrong.
It was probably taught in earlier grades but I remember thinking a ball was a circle more than I thought it was a sphere back then. I never really applied the names of 3D shapes in real life so I mixed them up often when they weren't taught in the same grade.
She didn't know what a sphere was, but she knew that the stop sign was a diamond (or whatever basic shape it was), the triangle was a triangle, and the ball is a circle, so it's pretty logical for her to say that the book whose shape is unknown to be the shape she doesn't know.
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View Profile Reading back on Smile's post, I agree. They just don't know what a sphere means yet, maybe they wasn't taught about that yet.
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View Profile In other news, a shameless advertisement about a SP.NET-type thing that me and Hewitt are doing. ITS HABBENING (and it's in my signature wew)
I'm also going to make another forum game, but it may be too nerdy for most people. It'll be fun either way though.
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View Profile In other news, a shameless advertisement about a SP.NET-type thing that me and Hewitt are doing. ITS HABBENING (and it's in my signature wew)
I'm also going to make another forum game, but it may be too nerdy for most people. It'll be fun either way though.
What exactly is the guideline to participate? We just post there?
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View Profile speaking of writing, i've started working on a fantasy novel with a friend of mine. it turns out that we complement each other perfectly - he's very creative and comes up with detailed descriptions, engaging scenes, and fun tangents, while i'm good at organizing and ordering events, filling in plot holes, proofreading and keeping things on track. we've got a good story idea and a well-built world... but we're both highly prone to procrastination so whether or not we end up getting anything done remains to be seen. we've talked about vague story ideas in the past though and never had such a detailed plan, so things are looking good though.
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View Profile I remember me and my friend having the same kind of relationship. We tried making novels but just ended up with great ideas that just sit in the shelf. I wish you and your friend luck, Scarecrow. :D
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View Profile I've tried collabs a few times before, but everyone who I ever worked with gave up after 3 or less parts :(
Hewitt's a monster though. Idk who else runs 5 forum games at a time and finishes basically all of them. Bloodlines should be fun lmao
Also, I'm jealous of Scarecrow. Especially when it comes to novels, finding someone who has the same ideas as you for huge-scale stories is hellaaaa rare.
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View Profile If possible, can you wait like 3 weeks? If so I'll enter then :p
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View Profile Pffffffff.
Though within 3 weeks there might be a large update to REM that lets us have 2000+ parts without lag, rather than just 200. I might host a second tournament then.
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View Profile Scarecrow should be jealous of you. He doesn't have me
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View Profile So I'm taking the written exam so I can get my driver's license in Korea, so I got an english-translated study guide with 160 pages and 700 questions.
Their questions are straight retarded
FYI it's saying only solutions 1 and 4 are correct.
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View Profile what is the retarded to non retarded question ratio