My husband is pushing the kids to learn U.S. geography by offering them rewards if they can learn to correctly identify all the states on the map. There’s a website that he’s using for this. I don’t know what it’s called, but it’s pretty cool. It lets you quiz yourself on all the major areas of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My husband presented me the opportunity to take some quizzes on the website, and I took the ones on the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Asia. I like to think that I did better than the average American would, but I didn’t do as well as I should have. In the U.S., I could identify the states if I started with the ones I knew well and then reasoned out the rest, but I struggled with the direct quiz (e.g., “click on Wyoming”). I was utterly clueless about Eastern Europe. Though I knew Asia fairly well in high school, some big gaps have opened up in my knowledge of that area since. My weakest performance was in Africa. There I knew Egypt, Sudan, Libya, South Africa, and Madagascar, and roughly where Morocco, Algeria, and Liberia were. I couldn’t even make educated guesses at the rest. It’s such a massive continent, and I know so little about it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve managed to get by thus far without knowing geography well. It was a little galling to be confronted with my ignorance, but probably not enough to spur me to educate myself. Too bad no one’s offering me incentives to improve my geographical knowledge!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My husband is pushing the kids to learn U.S. geography by offering them rewards if they can learn to correctly identify all the states on the map. There’s a website that he’s using for this. I don’t know what it’s … Continue reading