{"id":70,"date":"2005-10-27T19:37:03","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T00:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/10\/27\/slinking-by-8th-grade-math-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2005-10-27T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T00:37:03","slug":"slinking-by-8th-grade-math-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/10\/27\/slinking-by-8th-grade-math-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Slinking by 8th grade math in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a573'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n James Robert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincomsmalltalk.com\/blog\/blogView?showComments=true&amp;title=Looks+like+I+pass&amp;entry=3307815890#3307815890\">links<\/a><br \/>\n  to a mock 8th grade math test for U.S. students.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Out of curiosity I took a look at it and did okay.   Although, in my<br \/>\n opinion too many number formulas and not enough problems to help translate<br \/>\n from a word problem into a math equation.   Those tend to be harder but<br \/>\n I think are more useful in learning about how to apply math concepts learned<br \/>\n to a broader spectrum than just <em>N+2=C<\/em>.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n My results:<\/p>\n<p> <em><br \/>\n ***You Passed 8th Grade Math***<\/p>\n<p> Congratulations, you got 10\/10 correct!<\/p>\n<p> Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?<br \/>\n <br \/>\n http:\/\/www.blogthings.com\/couldyoupasseighthgrademathquiz\/<br \/>\n <\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincomsmalltalk.com\/blog\/blogView?showComments=true&amp;title=Looks+like+I+pass&amp;entry=3307815890#3307815890\">Try it yourself<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Robert links to a mock 8th grade math test for U.S. students. Out of curiosity I took a look at it and did okay. Although, in my opinion too many number formulas and not enough problems to help translate from a word problem into a math equation. Those tend to be harder but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}