{"issue":{"created_at":"2011-12-15T21:21:49Z","user":{"id":924247,"login":"KhanBugz","url":"https://api.github.com/users/KhanBugz","gravatar_id":"96ea3904626fe17bec2152ee31cee0cd","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/96ea3904626fe17bec2152ee31cee0cd?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png"},"title":"Solving for the y-intercept - not testing this skill","milestone":null,"labels":[{"name":"firefox","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Khan/khan-exercises/labels/firefox","color":"e102d8"},{"name":"hard","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Khan/khan-exercises/labels/hard","color":"02d7e1"},{"name":"snowleo","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Khan/khan-exercises/labels/snowleo","color":"ededed"}],"state":"open","updated_at":"2011-12-15T21:21:49Z","id":2572732,"html_url":"https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises/issues/8770","closed_at":null,"pull_request":{"patch_url":null,"html_url":null,"diff_url":null},"number":8770,"body":"Reporter: kristi.johnson@wayzata.k12.mn.us\n\nMy students are having a lot of difficulty showing proficiency on this topic because of the nature of the questions. SO many of them involve fractions (which I know we need to continue to work on), but subtracting fractions and simplifying fractions are NOT the skills that are being tested here. It is \"solving for the y-intercept\" and they can solve for the y-intercept but if they make a silly mistake in reducing or subtracting fractions, they miss a problem and have to start over again. Please make sure that the questions reflect what is actually being \"tested\".\n\nThank you!\nKristi Johnson\nPlymouth, MN\n\n[solving_for_the_y-intercept.html?seed=116&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/solving_for_the_y-intercept.html?seed=116&problem=0&debug)\n\n[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/solving_for_the_y-intercept.html?seed=116&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5D)\n\n    []\n\nMozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1\n\nMathJax is loaded, ready, queue length: 0\n\n","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Khan/khan-exercises/issues/8770","comments":0,"assignee":null},"action":"opened"}