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[quote=Anonymous]I am a high school teacher, and we are expected to norm our major assessments and exams with those of other teachers teaching the course. I am wondering if this is happening here.  A rogue teacher intentionally trying to be super hard isn't always the best practice, and this practice often rewards the "highest IQ kids" who would do well in all circumstances and not those who have put in considerable effort.  That said, rigorous work in math does require success in handling novel problems and being good at both computation and conceptional thinking.

I will note, too, that I got my lowest grade in math, a B-, in 8th grade when I had one of these teachers; I went on to major in math in college and got all A's for the rest of high school and college.  My 8th grade teacher told me, point blank, that I was a great mathematical thinker but wouldn't go further if I didn't get better at computation.  So I worked at it, and I doubt I would have continued in math but for this "tough love" experience.  Other classmates, in contrast, were demoralized and lost the desire to try hard in math again.  I don't teach math now, but probably wouldn't aim to be one of those super hard teachers, even though I benefitted from having one.[/quote]

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