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I thought the same thing! My husband and I were watching, I answered the
question outloud "TRUE" and when the whole panel answered "FALSE" and
was told that they were correct, boy did my husband have a laugh!  He
thought it was very humorous that a librarian got a 3rd grade reading
question wrong.
I insisted that I was right, but the show of course did not explain
their answer.  Coming from a public library background I thought maybe
in academic libraries they might use Dewey numbers?  
I'd like to write the show, but I'm sure they don't care. 

Natalie Beaver
Isleton Branch Supervisor
412 Union Street
P.O. Box 517
Isleton, CA 95641
916-777-6638
 


-----Original Message-----
From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Leigh Woznick
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:25 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: GEN: game show mistake?

Did anyone else see the new game show "Are you smarter than a 5th
grader" tonight?
One of the questions was in the category of 3rd grade reading.  I didn't
see the whole show, and came in on this question.  But I think it said:

"True or false?  Fiction books are NOT assigned numbers in the Dewey
Decimal System".

The woman contestant and all of the 5th graders answered false, and they
were told
this was correct.

Am I crazy?  Did I see it wrong? I think everyone got tripped up by
semantics -- it was confusingly worded.  
But if I saw it correctly, this is perpetuating incorrect information to
however many millions of folks watched the show.


Leigh Woznick
Library Media Specialist
Bridgewater-Raritan Middle School
Bridgewater, NJ
lwoznick@brrsd.k12.nj.us


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