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There needs to be a third, much smaller circle in the middle for “Amount of textbook actually covered on the tests.”
And an even smaller one, “Amount remembered After test”
Or a big one around the second circle (but slightly smaller than the big one), “Amount of textbook actually covered NEXT year.”
And a pinpoint dot for amount of content useful in real life.
And ANOTHER one, entirely seperate, that says “Content you need for a big project that’s only on the AP textbook! In the class, by the way, you have to memorize every President AND who they ran agaisnt! Which is why I don’t take it.
That is generous, actually. I think classes cover far less than that.
so?
The green ball is much too big indeed
Impossible…the actually used content area should be MUCH smaller.
this is such a stupid graph… do you realize how hard it would be to buy and sell text books if you taught ALL and ONLY what was in the book you had? there’d have to be 500 different versions and you’d have to buy all new books if your teacher changed the teaching plan.
it’s not like it’s a stupid idea to have more content in the book that you cover… it’s actually smart… unlike this graph
your completely forgetting the fact that the text books are based on the suggested curriculum given by the state. The books contain as much information as the state wants to cover, so therefor this graph is relevant since teachers rarely get past everything in a textbook regardless of state standards and limited time amount of time during the course
oh yeah cause text books are only printed to be sold in one state at a time.
Actually, I just think the green circle needs to be moved so part of it is outside of the red….
… What do you mean you didn’t take those classes? I swear over half of mine were like that.
You mean the poorly-xeroxed ‘teaching supplements’ you were given the day before the test because the teacher forgot about them?
Yeah, I had those. Most of them were hand-drawn.
Take AP Biology (or any AP course) and the green circle will fill the red circle -_-
AP Exam on Monday… woo.
Or actual college classes. I’ve definitely had single-semester courses where we read the entire textbook cover to cover.
On the flip side, I’ve done entire terms where I neglected to buy the “required” texts, and laughed at those who regretted forking out the $200 per book for a bunch of door stopsl
-stopsl, +stops.
I think a better funnier graph would be about the size of an Algebra book to be carried home vs the amount of homework that particular night.
You can stop playing the sad violin now.
To this graph I give a giant MEH.
For 2 classes… that green circle doesn’t even apply. Passing both classes wonderfully, and have never TOUCHED the textbook. Waste of money.
Multiple schools (or multiple educations) fill up different parts of the circle. Adding all schools which buy that book, you’re going to have pretty much the entire circle filled.
You forgot the microscopic dot of content they will change so you can no longer sell back the book because that edition expired (that $100 text book is now worth $ .25 in recyclable material).
Apparently someone’s textbook did not include what Venn diagrams actually represent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram
As a teacher I can say that though I WANT to cover all the material in a given textbook because, generally, that information is good and useful, if I were to TRY and cover all of it I’d get so much whining and complaining from parents and students that my life would be a living hell.
In reality, the art of teaching is finding those topics that students really need, that lead to and support other things they are learning. These “power topics” (or power standards), if covered deeply, do give one a good education. Education isn’t about retaining factual knowledge. As many of you here know quite well, the ability to THINK is far more important than merely being an encyclopedia.
So GOOD ON the teachers that don’t try to cover everything (but miss all the depth required for good thinking). GOOD ON the teachers that cover less, but help their students learn to appreciate and think through what they learn.
If you’re that interested in the subject, and that bitter about buying the textbook, then READ IT YOURSELF. Its not like your teacher will mind if you learn MORE than what they teach.
Agreed, on all accounts!
I guess you picked a soft major
I’m with you on this, Matt. M’ bachelor’s is in Geology; the green circle should be “total amount of content in textbook,” and the pink/salmon circle should be “expected/needed to know for tests.”
I don’t know how this happened, but when I first read this, I thought textbook was some sort of Facebook extension for cellphones I hadn’t heard of.
or in the case of my geography class, the green circle shouldn’t exist.
seriously we lugged around this text book all semester and the one time we actually used a text book, we used a different one!
or exactly vice versa…