Effort/Grades =

My daughter is struggling a little bit in math.  They’re currently working on unit rates and proportionality.  Not easy stuff, but it seems like she could put the YouTube down for a second and crack a math book every once in a while. So I was on her the other day about her lax attitude towards studying.  

Not surprisingly, she disagreed.  But her defense was novel - she alleged that her level of effort was perfectly appropriate because if she did less work she would fail, and if she did more work she would be too stressed.  She was essentially arguing that the *unit rate* of her effort/time was enough to get her a good grade.  I pointed out to her that at the current rate, it would not be enough, that in fact her unit rate would have to increase.  But wow, kudos for figuring out a math-appropriate way to disagree with me.  Hopefully she can improve her math skills enough to understand that her math skills need to improve.