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the paper equivalent of being asked to fill a bucket with a thimble.
means a printed page of questions or exercises designed to make sure you did the reading, or at least look like you did.
from rose with mass schooling and cheap photocopying in the mid 20th century, when teachers needed a way to keep 30 kids busy and gradeable at once without inventing a new lesson every day.
peak eraexploded with the ditto machine in the 1950s
real purposeoften classroom management, not learning
smell testpurple ditto ink had its own nostalgia cult
digital twinpdf worksheets now outnumber paper ones
for instance
mad minute math — timed multiplication drills from 1960s classrooms nationwide
scholastic dittos — purple-inked handouts that defined 1970s and 80s schooldays
common core packets — standardized us worksheets tied to 2010 curriculum reforms