Today my algebra kids made my day. This is a mid to low level algebra class and the students struggle with very basic number concepts like -2 - -9. Also they have been apparently trained by the middle school that if you answer isn't a whole number then it must be wrong. So they have often assumed that their answer of one half or .75 or something similar must have been incorrect (and if it was a negative fraction they must have made a big mistake!) Today I gave a test filled with answers that were not positive whole numbers and they kicked butt!!! I got fractions, decimals, negative numbers, it was incredible! They are finally more confident in their work than in their idea of what a right answer "looks" like.
My geometry students though.....apparently giving them problems EXACTLY like the ones we covered in class isn't easy enough and they need more time for a 25 question test where one quarter of those questions were vocab words where they just had to identify parts from a drawing. And why in the world would the CENTER of the circle be called the "midpoint of the circle." Did I even use the word midpoint once this chapter????
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