MY son got a 89.55 B+ in a course........

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Anonymous wrote:He can work harder in his classes next semester. He earned an 89.55 in this class. Without a time machine, he can only focus on doing better in the future.

When I was in school, that would've been a solid B, since A was 94-100. There's far too much grade inflation today.

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Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

Who says these grades are calculated in whole numbers? This is the school's discretion and the teacher's. It's ridiculous that you think otherwise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

Who says these grades are calculated in whole numbers? This is the school's discretion and the teacher's. It's ridiculous that you think otherwise.

+1. At my kid's HS a 89.99 would still be a B+. If grade cut off details are not school wide policy, then it's up to the teacher's class policy. It's not up to the student, parent, or TikTok's opinion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

Who says these grades are calculated in whole numbers? This is the school's discretion and the teacher's. It's ridiculous that you think otherwise.

My syllabus is very clear. I do not round up

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

Who says these grades are calculated in whole numbers? This is the school's discretion and the teacher's. It's ridiculous that you think otherwise.

My syllabus is very clear. I do not round up

Are you a math teacher? If you only round down you aren't rounding correctly from a math perspective. If a math test had the question "is 89.55 between 87 and 89 or between 90 and 92?" The correct answer is "between 90 and 92".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

Who says these grades are calculated in whole numbers? This is the school's discretion and the teacher's. It's ridiculous that you think otherwise.

My syllabus is very clear. I do not round up

Are you a math teacher? If you only round down you aren't rounding correctly from a math perspective. If a math test had the question "is 89.55 between 87 and 89 or between 90 and 92?" The correct answer is "between 90 and 92".

She's not rounding!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a prof I always round up. Guess that's just me.

Also, if the kid attended every class, went to office hours/ta hours and was working their ass off, most profs would find a way to boost the grade. My own kid had that happen a few times in college. But if the kid wasn't making a 110% effort, they earned the 89.99%. Maybe next time they will make more effort along the way. Better to let them learn that now and make them a better worker in the future

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Anonymous wrote:Ha! That's nothing. I got a 93 B. The graded down on the curve after the fact. Spoke to the dean nothing I could do. Academia is so corrupt.

Sophomore year of college, I failed a class with an 88.5% thanks to the curve. The passing cutoff was set at 89. Had to retake it the next year. I got a 95 - the passing grade that year was 73. I hate curves. You know the material or don’t, it shouldn’t matter what anyone else knows.

I truly don’t understand what OP or the kid hope to achieve by posting on TikTok.

Well IMO, a passing curve set at 89 is ridiculous. Curves should only help students, not harm them. I concur---if you know 70-75% of the material you should pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

If a class doesn't round grades, they don't round, end of story. It's not some fundamental law of math that grades are rounded. Some professors do, and some professors don't as part of their policy. Also, Canvas software may report , many silly insignificant figures or in this case the OP's college student may have decided the tenths were super important, but it is up to the professor or school policy to determine which figures actually matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

If the teacher calculates to two decimals - then they did not get a 90.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

Who says these grades are calculated in whole numbers? This is the school's discretion and the teacher's. It's ridiculous that you think otherwise.

Agree with the PP before this one. Test scores are not given to the tenths place so the grade shouldn't either. And "5 and above, give it a shove" is a standard principle in math. The 89.55 should be a 90% and an A-. The teacher that does not do this is lacking integrity, imo. And basically an a$$.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

Who says these grades are calculated in whole numbers? This is the school's discretion and the teacher's. It's ridiculous that you think otherwise.

My syllabus is very clear. I do not round up

You're a controlling and vindictive person, drunk on her own authority. Got it.

Just b/c you own it, doesn't change what you are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a prof I always round up. Guess that's just me.

Also, if the kid attended every class, went to office hours/ta hours and was working their ass off, most profs would find a way to boost the grade. My own kid had that happen a few times in college. But if the kid wasn't making a 110% effort, they earned the 89.99%. Maybe next time they will make more effort along the way. Better to let them learn that now and make them a better worker in the future

Without any other info - I probably would have given this student an A- too. However, when I was giving grades, I'd take into account the whole semester and the other students grades. If there was a significant gap between this 89.55 and the lowest percentage in the 90's - and if I felt those students in the 90's were a cut above this student, and/or that this student was more like the others in the high 80's - I might be inclined to give them a B+.

Either way - this is something they should speak with the teacher about - and they should be respectful and not act like all they care about is the grade - this will just annoy the teacher. Nothing more off-putting than a grade-grubber who shows no interest in the class and places zero value on what they learned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

According to math 89.55 rounds to 90 so if the minimum for an A- is 90 (not 90.0) then the kid has an A-. That isn't teacher discretion, that is math. You can try it for yourself by putting 89.55 into excel and asking it to show the number without any decimals.

Also, if the individual test grades were not reported to the tenths place, then the average of those grades shouldn't be reported to the tenths place. For example, if you measured a bunch of people's heights in centimeters, you should not report the results in millimeters. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/accuracy-and-precision

If a class doesn't round grades, they don't round, end of story. It's not some fundamental law of math that grades are rounded. Some professors do, and some professors don't as part of their policy. Also, Canvas software may report , many silly insignificant figures or in this case the OP's college student may have decided the tenths were super important, but it is up to the professor or school policy to determine which figures actually matter.

Well if the average of 89.55 was calculated based on a bunch of tests with individual scores reported to the units place (ex an 89 or a 90) then it would be incorrect to report the average to the hundredths place. That doesn't mean a teacher can't have a policy of doing that, but it means that policy doesn't get you an accurate result from a math perspective. But if a teachers wants to say that they are combining 2 and 2 and getting 5, that is within their rights, but it's not adding. What this teacher is doing is calculating grades in a way that contradicts how one would assume they had been calculated based on the rules of math. Unless the school has a policy that the cutoff is a 90.0 and individual tests are reported to the tenths place.