@MrDanielBuck Awesome. Tell me more about your experience using this in a math classroom. Even better…tell me why you can’t do BOTH (high quality direct instruction and quality, thinking tasks meant to engage students through productive struggle with appropriate amounts of scaffolding)…🙄
@mremrich1 My AP Stats course has two options:
1. Take AP test
and/or
2. Enroll as dual credit thru local community college
Best of both worlds. Most enroll and skip the test. Some do both.
"There are stars, and then there are solar systems. Caitlin Clark is the latter. ... Everything revolves around Caitlin Clark."
Someone doesn’t understand basic astronomy…😂😂
@Adele_Liles With that said…LOTS of feedback along the way. In fact lots of things get graded and put in grade book along the way…but they are put in as “no counts”…it’s about the feedback not the grade…
@Adele_Liles Like “no grades”…ever?
I’ve got upper-level math/physics/astronomy…none of my HW is graded…I don’t have concrete numbers but I would venture I have about 80-90% completion rate on whatever I ask them to do…
The only grades that actually end up counting are quizzes/tests.
@divbyzero If this was part of another question where students could easily overlook the subtle changes involved…then yes…trick question. But this is literally THE ONLY thing being asked to evaluate on this problem. Can the student apply the Quadratic Formula in a new setting?
@divbyzero So…pretty decent question if you want to see if students understand WHAT the quadratic formula is…lousy question if you just want them to regurgitate what they have memorized in a past math class…
I loath “trick” questions. This doesn’t fall into that category.
@cluzniak A great question. I believe @Mathgarden wrote an article a few years ago asking a similar question. I think we owe our students a better version of what is currently being offered. We can start with mandating testing and go from there.
@ItsAMrY I would say yes…I usually use Twitter a lot with my Methods class…but this semester I basically told them “it’s not what it used to be”…kind of sad.
I was 9 years old…had stayed up late to watch Bears win Super Bowl…but we had a snow storm in Pittsburgh and school was canceled on Monday. I was watching it on TV in basement when it exploded. I went upstairs and told my mom and she thought I meant it “went up”…