MathSpace is the absolute worst

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm elsewhere in Virginia and our high schooler's math class is all on paper. Trig. They ditched the online math platforms for being ineffective, and poorly designed. Kid has a paper packet of math problems due on Monday in class. Have fun!

Have fun with all the MAGA this fall!!

Dunno what this is implying, but uhh.. thanks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every single test my daughter takes is on mathspace, and all the quizzes have been on mathspace as well. It gives her high anxiety when she takes these tests, because as soon as she gets one wrong she looses motivation for the rest. And the things she gets wrong are so stupid. Just because she did not input it correctly?

Mathspace tests are the worst!

[Anonymous]

My kid uses math space in her algebra class and it's been a phenomenal resource for her. The questions are aligned closely with what's on the unit tests and the option to try again when you get it wrong has been great. We haven't had any issues with the program not accepting an answer because of the way we input it. I do know that the wording in the program does make it seem like you have to answer each step but you don't. So I understand the confusion there.

That being said, it does take some effort on the teacher's part to make sure that the questions are appropriate. I occasionally assign math space homework and will not use any question that requires kids to show steps or answers in a way that we haven't taught them.

Did find a wrong answer one time, though, and had to contact math space to get it corrected.

[Anonymous]

back when I was in high school and took Geometry 2003-2004, we had something called CT Geometry, and we had to go the computer every other week.

[Anonymous]

They need to do away with these online programs, or at least stop making them for grading purposes. It should be practice only. Our child’s middle school teacher punishes them in their grades for missing 1-2 problems on mathspace and often makes it a summative grade. It is stressful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They need to do away with these online programs, or at least stop making them for grading purposes. It should be practice only. Our child’s middle school teacher punishes them in their grades for missing 1-2 problems on mathspace and often makes it a summative grade. It is stressful.

Has your child utilized the "reattempt question" feature at the bottom of practice assignments? (It's removed for assessments, but defaults to being there on all regular assignments). Students get full credit for the question if they reattempt a question and get it correct the second or third time.

When mathspace first came out we were told we could not use it for assessments, but then covid came and it was the only tool we had so after that year many teachers continued to test with it. They now have a "testing" mode they introduced a few months ago that removes all the help videos and prompts and reattempt options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to do away with these online programs, or at least stop making them for grading purposes. It should be practice only. Our child’s middle school teacher punishes them in their grades for missing 1-2 problems on mathspace and often makes it a summative grade. It is stressful.

Has your child utilized the "reattempt question" feature at the bottom of practice assignments? (It's removed for assessments, but defaults to being there on all regular assignments). Students get full credit for the question if they reattempt a question and get it correct the second or third time.

When mathspace first came out we were told we could not use it for assessments, but then covid came and it was the only tool we had so after that year many teachers continued to test with it. They now have a "testing" mode they introduced a few months ago that removes all the help videos and prompts and reattempt options.

Of course. Do you think we are stupid? The teacher recently disabled the reattempt question feature. It’s homework but no reattempt and is graded on number correct the first time around. It’s bs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to do away with these online programs, or at least stop making them for grading purposes. It should be practice only. Our child’s middle school teacher punishes them in their grades for missing 1-2 problems on mathspace and often makes it a summative grade. It is stressful.

Has your child utilized the "reattempt question" feature at the bottom of practice assignments? (It's removed for assessments, but defaults to being there on all regular assignments). Students get full credit for the question if they reattempt a question and get it correct the second or third time.

When mathspace first came out we were told we could not use it for assessments, but then covid came and it was the only tool we had so after that year many teachers continued to test with it. They now have a "testing" mode they introduced a few months ago that removes all the help videos and prompts and reattempt options.

Of course. Do you think we are stupid? The teacher recently disabled the reattempt question feature. It’s homework but no reattempt and is graded on number correct the first time around. It’s bs.

definitely stupid found here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to do away with these online programs, or at least stop making them for grading purposes. It should be practice only. Our child’s middle school teacher punishes them in their grades for missing 1-2 problems on mathspace and often makes it a summative grade. It is stressful.

Has your child utilized the "reattempt question" feature at the bottom of practice assignments? (It's removed for assessments, but defaults to being there on all regular assignments). Students get full credit for the question if they reattempt a question and get it correct the second or third time.

When mathspace first came out we were told we could not use it for assessments, but then covid came and it was the only tool we had so after that year many teachers continued to test with it. They now have a "testing" mode they introduced a few months ago that removes all the help videos and prompts and reattempt options.

Of course. Do you think we are stupid? The teacher recently disabled the reattempt question feature. It’s homework but no reattempt and is graded on number correct the first time around. It’s bs.

I'd reach out to the teacher--they may not have realized it has gone away. And if they do realize, they can clarify why they took it away.

I don't think you're stupid, I just think you are picking a fight unnecessarily. How is a graded mathspace any different from a worksheet graded for correctness? At least mathspace catches you on step 1 if you make a mistake, vs. allowing you to do the whole thing incorrectly 10 times in a row without realizing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to do away with these online programs, or at least stop making them for grading purposes. It should be practice only. Our child’s middle school teacher punishes them in their grades for missing 1-2 problems on mathspace and often makes it a summative grade. It is stressful.

Has your child utilized the "reattempt question" feature at the bottom of practice assignments? (It's removed for assessments, but defaults to being there on all regular assignments). Students get full credit for the question if they reattempt a question and get it correct the second or third time.

When mathspace first came out we were told we could not use it for assessments, but then covid came and it was the only tool we had so after that year many teachers continued to test with it. They now have a "testing" mode they introduced a few months ago that removes all the help videos and prompts and reattempt options.

Of course. Do you think we are stupid? The teacher recently disabled the reattempt question feature. It’s homework but no reattempt and is graded on number correct the first time around. It’s bs.

I'd reach out to the teacher--they may not have realized it has gone away. And if they do realize, they can clarify why they took it away.

I don't think you're stupid, I just think you are picking a fight unnecessarily. How is a graded mathspace any different from a worksheet graded for correctness? At least mathspace catches you on step 1 if you make a mistake, vs. allowing you to do the whole thing incorrectly 10 times in a row without realizing it.

You can certainly check a worksheet for correctness when the kids are just learning the material. It should not be treated as a quiz grade though. The teacher should reteach kids in small groups based on how they do, not punish kids with bad grades for practicing but not quite getting it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to do away with these online programs, or at least stop making them for grading purposes. It should be practice only. Our child’s middle school teacher punishes them in their grades for missing 1-2 problems on mathspace and often makes it a summative grade. It is stressful.

Has your child utilized the "reattempt question" feature at the bottom of practice assignments? (It's removed for assessments, but defaults to being there on all regular assignments). Students get full credit for the question if they reattempt a question and get it correct the second or third time.

When mathspace first came out we were told we could not use it for assessments, but then covid came and it was the only tool we had so after that year many teachers continued to test with it. They now have a "testing" mode they introduced a few months ago that removes all the help videos and prompts and reattempt options.

Of course. Do you think we are stupid? The teacher recently disabled the reattempt question feature. It’s homework but no reattempt and is graded on number correct the first time around. It’s bs.

I'd reach out to the teacher--they may not have realized it has gone away. And if they do realize, they can clarify why they took it away.

I don't think you're stupid, I just think you are picking a fight unnecessarily. How is a graded mathspace any different from a worksheet graded for correctness? At least mathspace catches you on step 1 if you make a mistake, vs. allowing you to do the whole thing incorrectly 10 times in a row without realizing it.

You can certainly check a worksheet for correctness when the kids are just learning the material. It should not be treated as a quiz grade though. The teacher should reteach kids in small groups based on how they do, not punish kids with bad grades for practicing but not quite getting it.

If it's a summative, then it can be retaken once for a grade up to 90%. Has the student asked to retake?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to do away with these online programs, or at least stop making them for grading purposes. It should be practice only. Our child’s middle school teacher punishes them in their grades for missing 1-2 problems on mathspace and often makes it a summative grade. It is stressful.

Has your child utilized the "reattempt question" feature at the bottom of practice assignments? (It's removed for assessments, but defaults to being there on all regular assignments). Students get full credit for the question if they reattempt a question and get it correct the second or third time.

When mathspace first came out we were told we could not use it for assessments, but then covid came and it was the only tool we had so after that year many teachers continued to test with it. They now have a "testing" mode they introduced a few months ago that removes all the help videos and prompts and reattempt options.

Of course. Do you think we are stupid? The teacher recently disabled the reattempt question feature. It’s homework but no reattempt and is graded on number correct the first time around. It’s bs.

I'd reach out to the teacher--they may not have realized it has gone away. And if they do realize, they can clarify why they took it away.

I don't think you're stupid, I just think you are picking a fight unnecessarily. How is a graded mathspace any different from a worksheet graded for correctness? At least mathspace catches you on step 1 if you make a mistake, vs. allowing you to do the whole thing incorrectly 10 times in a row without realizing it.

You can certainly check a worksheet for correctness when the kids are just learning the material. It should not be treated as a quiz grade though. The teacher should reteach kids in small groups based on how they do, not punish kids with bad grades for practicing but not quite getting it.

If it's a summative, then it can be retaken once for a grade up to 90%. Has the student asked to retake?

Quiz grades are never summatives. They are formative and can’t be retaken.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to do away with these online programs, or at least stop making them for grading purposes. It should be practice only. Our child’s middle school teacher punishes them in their grades for missing 1-2 problems on mathspace and often makes it a summative grade. It is stressful.

Has your child utilized the "reattempt question" feature at the bottom of practice assignments? (It's removed for assessments, but defaults to being there on all regular assignments). Students get full credit for the question if they reattempt a question and get it correct the second or third time.

When mathspace first came out we were told we could not use it for assessments, but then covid came and it was the only tool we had so after that year many teachers continued to test with it. They now have a "testing" mode they introduced a few months ago that removes all the help videos and prompts and reattempt options.

Of course. Do you think we are stupid? The teacher recently disabled the reattempt question feature. It’s homework but no reattempt and is graded on number correct the first time around. It’s bs.

I'd reach out to the teacher--they may not have realized it has gone away. And if they do realize, they can clarify why they took it away.

I don't think you're stupid, I just think you are picking a fight unnecessarily. How is a graded mathspace any different from a worksheet graded for correctness? At least mathspace catches you on step 1 if you make a mistake, vs. allowing you to do the whole thing incorrectly 10 times in a row without realizing it.

You can certainly check a worksheet for correctness when the kids are just learning the material. It should not be treated as a quiz grade though. The teacher should reteach kids in small groups based on how they do, not punish kids with bad grades for practicing but not quite getting it.

If it's a summative, then it can be retaken once for a grade up to 90%. Has the student asked to retake?

Quiz grades are never summatives. They are formative and can’t be retaken.

Sorry, I saw "assessment" and jumped to summative. Then it's in the 30% formative category (and open notes?). If they can't get it right on the first try, that's feedback (the purpose of formative) that the student needs more work to master the topic, just like a paper quiz.