NYT Connections for May 2024
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Comments (27)"It does not have to be all or nothing. I use hot water once in a while for a load and do not feel guilty. I do what I can to conserve and try to keep it in mind." I agree. Don't know anyone who uses hot for everything. When I read articles like this I'm personally laboring under my annoyance with the machine mfgrs whom one has to wrestle with in order even to learn what they consider "cold", "warm", or "hot" anymore. Don't know the proportion of machine buyers/owners who can no longer EVER get an actual hot wash because of their machine's non-disclosed limitations but, judging from what's posted here and elsewhere, their numbers are legion. That's why I used the word "agenda"....See MoreNYT piece on teaching writing. Thoughts?
Comments (61)As with everything else, not every individual learns the same way or masters a skill the same way. Great teachers present alternatives for students in the hope that one will make sense and stick. Absolutely. My son also had a difficult time in school because of teachers who refused to be flexible to address his needs. He was in middle school when home PCs were not prevalent. That poor kids could simply not put his thoughts down in writing. We know now that has dysgraphia. I went and spoke to his teachers asking that he be allowed to use his computer for assignments. His Science grade shot up to straight A's. His science teacher suggested oral presentations. On the other hand he had an ass for a Social Studies teacher who continued to mark correctly answered answers wrong because the handwriting didn't meet his criteria. DS's problems started with ear and speech problems, leading to spelling problems in elementary school. It took a second grade teacher to recognize the issue. He said DS spelled just fine if you took how he heard and spoke the words into consideration. Previously they wanted to hold him back. By the fifth grade he was put in a special "focus" reading group. Stuff like you would see in kindergarten. This despite the fact he had been reading sci-fi novels at home since 2nd grade and his most requested gift every year was the world almanac. After a huge war with the district I had him moved to a different school. He was immediately place in the high reading group at that school His new teacher wanted to see how he did by starting him at the top, not the bottom. He did just fine. From D and F grades from the previous school to A and B grades with an occasional C. Then in middle school the struggle began again with the writing. By high school he detested school. He purposefully failed his classes so he would have to go to night school. The tech magnet he looked forward was horrendous for him. He knew far more than the teachers who were supposed to be instructing him. One teacher would frequently call DS at home for tech support for the teacher's home computer. Same teacher almost failed DS for not completing lab work. LOL Those were extremely rough years for us. We couldn't afford private school and homeschooling hadn't become secular yet. I became "that mom" who actually blackmailed the district into moving my kid out of the horrid 5th grade he was in. Basically DS turned out to be a kid with a "genius" (we hate that word) IQ, who has a photographic memory of the written word. Unfortunately he fell through the cracks of the public school system. Got passed over for gifted programs in the name of diversity, never had his achievements recognized. He was too "different"....See MoreNYT Connections for November
Comments (391)For the second day in a row, the purple category jumped out at me. Does anyone else write down their guesses? I entered the (purple) choices right away, then wrote down my guess for the next Connection. Puzzle responded that I was one away ( one wrong blue), which surprised me. ( I changed a choice as a result- you can see that in the second 1 blue/3 greens) but that was wrong, which didn't surprise me. When the green was revealed it, of course, matched my first written list of 4 words. The only thing I can think is that I first mistakenly hit one blue word that was close to the correct green word. Either that, or the Puzzle is telling us correct guesses are incorrect, so I'll have to watch my fat thumbs more closely. Connections Puzzle #173 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟦🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩...See MoreNYT Connections word game
Comments (504)Connections Puzzle #341 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟦🟪🟦 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Played this twice today (separate devices so each time started anew). First two were easy, absolutely couldn’t get the last two. So I just finally randomly selected just to use up my gueses, and lo and behold got one. Whew. I’ll take the win....See More
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