{"id":222,"date":"2014-06-15T07:33:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T07:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newblog.primefactorisation.com\/2014\/06\/15\/half-time-score-update\/"},"modified":"2024-11-02T15:04:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T20:04:45","slug":"half-time-score-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/15\/half-time-score-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Half time score update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the features of my Maths Methods classes over the last few years has been the scoreboard, for a game that no-one is entirely sure of the rules for. Well, there are some rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I make a mistake on the board and they spot it before I correct it myself, the class gets a point.<\/li>\n<li>If they claim I made a mistake when I didn&#8217;t, I get a point.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m the only one who&#8217;s allowed to update the scoreboard (otherwise I get a point).<\/li>\n<li>Last year they were allowed to claim one &#8216;cake-point&#8217; per week (that&#8217;s exactly what it sounds like: they get a point if they bring a cake to class). Honestly, I don&#8217;t mind it when they score this way \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus there&#8217;s a whole heap of silly rules that tend to get made up on the spot, by both them and myself.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a silly little thing we do which keeps them paying attention and keeps me on my toes. I&#8217;d like to say I planned it that way, but the game sort of just developed by itself. At the end of each year the outgoing class seems to tell the next year&#8217;s class about the game, so they claim points from me before I&#8217;ve even mentioned it.<\/p>\n<p>The first year we did it, I won comprehensively. It was a tie last year (though I may have bent the rules a fair bit to catch up). This year, I think I&#8217;m in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>As Unit 3 ended on Friday and Unit 4 starts this week. So it&#8217;s half time at the moment. The scoring&#8217;s been pretty slow this year &#8211; they&#8217;re fairly conservative with their challenges and aren&#8217;t willing to give up anything easily. Unfortunately for me, that strategy seems to be working:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/content\/images\/2014\/Jun\/scoreboard.jpg\" alt=\"Half time scoreboard\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh well. Everyone loves a good comeback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the features of my Maths Methods classes over the last few years has been the scoreboard, for a game that no-one is entirely sure of the rules for. Well, there are some rules: If I make a mistake on the board and they spot it before I correct it myself, the class gets &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/15\/half-time-score-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Half time score update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.primefactorisation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}