Comments on: Mom, I Need Help with my Homework

By: Maddy

Maddy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:06:52 +0000

by “look at the x-axis again” I meant “look at the title of the x-axis again”, btw.

By: Maddy

Maddy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:05:40 +0000

actually, I think you’re still wrong.

correct me if I’m off, but . . . look at the x-axis again. this graph doesn’t compare the importance of an assignment to the amount of time before it’s due. it compares the importance of an assignment to the point in time when the kid asks his mum for help.

. . . I think this graph could’ve been better played, tbh. but, yeah.

By: mulletguy

mulletguy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:53:35 +0000

why does everyone hate on the graphs?
The ones in the voting section aren’t that much better, and just because people like it doesn’t make it inferior.
In the same way linux is not automatically better than windows because it is less popular.

By: srab

srab — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:46:36 +0000

i was the same way. something would just click in those two hours before class.

By: Not Your Face

Not Your Face — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:55:56 +0000

GraphJam is SERIOUS business!

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:29:10 +0000

Ok, I will admit it I got a REALLY bad grade for the late work but what ever! One grade isn’t going to kill me later. But, it might haunt me… Oh crap!

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:01:36 +0000

Graph fail. Flip axes.

By: Zog

Zog — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:01:13 +0000

(Serious question alert)
So what about relabeling the vertical axis as “Alleged Importance To Grade”. So when the kid is on the way out the door, the kid alleges that (s)he’ll fail unless you help RIGHT NOW. I.e., the alleged importance of the homework isn’t the actual importance, it’s just how much the kid is trying to get Mom to help?

By: Zog

Zog — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:58:09 +0000

I’m not naming names, Yarcofin, but someone here clearly doesn’t have kids.

By: meh

meh — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:35:05 +0000

ooh, somebody call a waahmbulance for how quaint.

By: papajon

papajon — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:33:40 +0000

Substitue ‘dad’ for ‘mom’ and I’ve so been there with my grade schooler. Although with the latest procrastination the little bugger gave me 3 days notice for a project he had 4 weeks to complete! Ugh…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:46:10 +0000

I always put things off until the night before and I still got A’s. I’ve done homework for other classes during a class I had right before the period when it was due. Still got A’s.

By: emily

emily — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:01:57 +0000

I am going to go with a subtle commentary on how kids put things off until the last minute.

Your reading to much into things on the internet. And yes, some assignments are more important. If your at the office and you have two tasks:

-Send out an email.
-Go to a meeting with the investor.

One of the two is more important then the other no matter what kind of spin you try to put on it.

By: Basch

Basch — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:06:53 +0000

Then go away

By: da-kill

da-kill — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:17:53 +0000

Better was mine! Actually i did the homework AFTER the school started! After arriving there, went to a place where teacher usually don’t go. Did the homework and entered the class like i was arriving late. Luckily the teacher accepted it. Rofl’ed a lot later.
p.s. more two classmates did it too.

By: mythago

mythago — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:51:36 +0000

But this is the kind of graph that you draw when your kid says “Mom, I need help because my graph project is due! This morning!”

By: theevilone4

theevilone4 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:23:35 +0000

I think it’s not only about how kids procrastinate, but how they over-exaggerate things as well. I think you would be more obliged to help your children if they said it was worth more of their mark. So the smallest assignment becomes the biggest thing at the last minute, just so you’ll be more likely to help.
It’s how the children perceive it’s worth vs. when it’s due, not it’s actual worth… I think.

That’s how I see it, anyways.

By: Kirian

Kirian — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:13:56 +0000

Yep, I should take this one in to my students (1) to remind them of their seeming inability to turn assignments in on time and (2) to remind them which variables to put on which axes for their science fair projects.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:34:22 +0000

I don’t know… But I do understand that if it is 10 minutes before school starts, then yea it is pretty important!! I made that mistake once… um, oops!? XD I laughed it all off later. At least I had time to finish in the car!

By: Vi31

Vi31 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:27:40 +0000

If that’s the case, then, doesn’t it make the graph head down instead of of up? I like the graph because obviously the need for help is going up, so should the graph.

By: Laeli

Laeli — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:57:30 +0000

Just turn your head sideways and it kind of works.

By: Setagana

Setagana — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:32:53 +0000

Would have to agree with Quaint that it is a graph making fail. Convetion states that the horizontal axis should form the dependent variable and the vertical axis should form the independent variable. To put it another way: the impact on final grade appears to be affected by when the child asks for help, which just doesn’t make sense.

This is a very long-winded way of saying the axes should be flipped. But if people aren’t allowed to be long-winded and pedantic on the intarweb then when, I ask you?

By: HasKids

HasKids — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:18:39 +0000

Quaint. Dude. It’s not about YOU, or what you think about the graph. It’s about what KIDS do.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:07:45 +0000

You know, I think the MORE important a project is, the more likely I’m going to procrastinate doing it…So yeah, this graphs is totally accurate.

By: srab

srab — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:30:10 +0000

ugh, flashbacks to my own stint in compulsory education. this graph is dead-on.

By: lolz

lolz — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:04:32 +0000

rofl! stressed out mom.

But at least she cares for the education of her children

By: How quaint

How quaint — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:20:40 +0000

You’re reading my comment rong.

Take another look at the first line.

By: jzimbert

jzimbert — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:18:04 +0000

You’re reading the graph wrong. Take another look at the axes.

By: How quaint

How quaint — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:51:31 +0000

Look, nothing against parents sharing a laugh about kids that procrastinate, but the graph is terrible.

I’d rather be the judge at an all-baking-soda-volcano science fair than look at this graph again.

By: Yarcofin

Yarcofin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:40:53 +0000

Is homework too hard if kids can’t figure it out by themself?

By: HasKids

HasKids — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:32:09 +0000

Apparently the first commenter does not have children. Did you read the title of the graph?

By: How quaint

How quaint — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:21:07 +0000

Is this a subtle commentary on how kids put things off until the last minute?

Or is it a simple graph fail?

Wouldn’t that ultra-critical assignment, on which a passing grade hinges, be just as important to the child’s grade on the day it was assigned as it would be ten minutes before school starts on the due date?

Not according to this chart.