Post Arx0p9uGS0dhY919ge by grant_h@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Arwxu0xSqew3Nl8cvA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-11T16:08:31Z
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When you have some students who don’t exactly love math (despite your best efforts) but who *do* care about their grades a test or exam can be an opportunity to teach a thing or two. You have their undivided attention and focus for once and with a little planning you can line up a sequence of problems that does a bit more than check off the boxes. Problems that offer an opportunity to see the bigger picture of the subject (even as you ensure the students aren’t surprised by anything too new.)
(DIR) Post #ArwyL2YF26bq8sE9IG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-11T16:13:24Z
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I don’t know if I’d use exams in the same way if I could teach however I want— but if I must write an exam, I’m going to create a whole “math experience” — a “math safari” it’s just so much more satisfying when I don’t feel like I’m wasting their time. I think it worked well today!I’ve taken a few exams that managed to do this— where I walked out knowing more than when I walked in and I vowed to learn the black magic of test writing that could make that happen.
(DIR) Post #ArwyXMa6O63LjsyQGO by AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social
2025-03-11T16:15:32Z
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@futurebird This is why god educators use formative assessment.
(DIR) Post #ArwzULT8AQOzNGpzcG by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-03-11T16:26:15Z
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I have taken a few of those tests and they were glorious! Oh, one of them was why we can have glaciers near the equator and I didn’t get quite all of it but it was great anyway.The one I didnt pass was somewhere between my fault and Not Meant to Be.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #Arx0RIDZtghMNSfgJc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-11T16:36:57Z
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(DIR) Post #Arx0p9uGS0dhY919ge by grant_h@mastodon.social
2025-03-11T16:41:14Z
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@futurebird Curious, what level was this?
(DIR) Post #Arx0wMSOBewQV8PhnU by 3janeTA@beige.party
2025-03-11T16:42:31Z
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@futurebird I’ve always loved those kinds of tests
(DIR) Post #Arx22sW9zy2rcyqhRg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-11T16:54:54Z
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@grant_h A high school calculus course.
(DIR) Post #Arx62IPUe3TJSVhymO by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-11T17:39:36Z
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@futurebirdThis sounds really great. I'm sure *I* would have loved it. But, isn't there a risk that the student gets thrown off by mistakes earlier in the test and then they compound later in the test? How do you mitigate that kind of snowball effect?
(DIR) Post #ArxFMDr2ByeghzAPnU by lufthans@mastodon.social
2025-03-11T19:24:01Z
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@futurebird I was able to do that someIt was teaching system administration classes in an abbreviated format, I didn't have time for students to not be learningIt was great to hear students exclaim as they figured something outTroubleshooting and learning on the fly were definitely on topic since these were sysadm classes, so I probably had more wiggle room than most other topicsI certainly had to do a lot of troubleshooting and learning on the fly to grade some of the answers :)
(DIR) Post #ArxJ2VO1hLVj6mS6eO by grant_h@mastodon.social
2025-03-11T20:05:16Z
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@futurebird mmm. I can see the potential. They have enough building blocks to work with by then.
(DIR) Post #ArxOENocAmHisAN7gG by temporal_spider@masto.ai
2025-03-11T21:03:28Z
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@futurebird I wish you could have been my math teacher.