Define This

Since it’s becoming clear to all of us that I am just a few weeks away from putting a “HELP ME PAY FOR A TUTOR”  Paypal button on my sidebar, I may as well keep talking about my children’s education.

Last night, Young Ladrinka got to work on his English homework.  He had to read 15 pages of Dominic and write down three open-ended questions about what he’d read.  He went to his room and in record time, told me that he was done and now free to play the Wii.

Ever the concerned parent, I asked him what his three questions were.  (Don’t worry, no spoilers!)

How many hats  did Dominic bring with him?

What other stuff did Dominic bring with him?

Now I don’t know who this Dominic person is or why he’s taking hats with him, but I noticed that my son wrote down only two questions. And that they didn’t seem to be open ended.  Otherwise, everything was in order.

“They are open ended!” he defended himself after I read the indictment and sentenced him to his room.  “Open ended means that you don’t know the answer from the book.  How many hats did he take with him? I have no idea!  Open ended!”

“There are only two questions.”

And because I didn’t read him the Miranda warning, he totally incriminated himself.

“My last one is what happens after page 5?”

“Did you read past page 5?”

“No, I wanted to keep it open ended.”

I’m pretty sure that Shakespeare’s mother had similar conversations with Bill.

And then my daughter.

A few people left comments on yesterday’s post questioning the whole vocabulary math thing.

Which is probably just code for “yeah, six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. Riiight.”

So I got my hands on my daughter’s math vocabulary test.  See how you do.  (My answers in parentheses.)  The real answers at the bottom of the post.  Upside down, to prevent cheater-pantery.  When you’re done, just flip your computer screen upside down and all will be revealed.  Good luck!

1. The numbers 2,5,8,11, … are an example of a(n) _____ (Lotto numbers)

2.  To ___ a number means to multiply that number by itself.  (Clone)

3. A(n) ____is a symbol used to indicate the positive square root of a number. (Hi!)

4. A(n) ____ contains variables, numbers, and at least one operation.  (Health Care Reform)

5.  The numeral factor of a term that contains a variable is called a(n) ______ (Gosh, I hope the euthanasia option didn’t go the way of the public option, the Senate version)

6,  A(n) _______ tells how many times a base is used as a factor.  (Umpire)

7. Mathematicians agreed on a(n) _____ so that numerical expressions would have only one value. (Scam)

8. A(n)  ________ is a mathematical sentence that contains an equal sign. (I hope that this is almost over)

9. A relationship in which each input value results in exactly one output value is called a(n)_______. (Digestion)

10.  The ____ of a function is the set of output values. (Please output me out of my misery)

ǝƃuɐɹ ˙01 uoıʇɔunɟ ˙9 uoıʇɐnbǝ˙8 ƃuıʇɐɹǝdo ɟo ɹǝpɹo ˙7 ɹǝʍod ˙6 ʇuǝıɔıɟɟǝoɔ ˙5 uoıssǝɹdxǝ ɔıɐɹqǝƃןɐ ˙4 uƃıs ןɐɔıpɐɹ ˙3 ǝɹɐnbs ˙2 ǝɔuǝnbǝs ɔıʇǝɯɥʇıɹɐ ˙1

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