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[quote=Anonymous]There is no policy against pop-up quizzes.

It is perfectly reasonable to have ungraded assignments- that’s how you learn. You shouldn’t be given a grade just for trying (that’s what the 10% HW category is for).

The 90% category should be where students demonstrate their mastery of the content. In math, this is definitely through quizzes and tests.

The number of total points on a “big test” doesn’t matter. It’s a test taken in a set amount of time covering specific content. The points can be scaled up and down without affecting the measure of success. I presume some of those questions are longer problems that the teacher is grading the steps of the process. Maybe they expected a problem to be 5 points, but as they graded they realized they wanted to account for the steps differently and graded it out of 6 or 7 points.

This is an awful big vent for the middle of summer. If you are a student, let it go and be more on top of your work next year. If you are a parent, you should not be this involved in your student’s work. You need to step back.

-HS STEM teacher at another school [/quote]

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