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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid's math teacher was admonished for giving out too many low grades, and made some of the tests group work to bring the scores up.[/quote]

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From DC's experience it sounds like these assignments occur after a very low average on the previous test.[/quote]

In my kid's class, the teacher supposedly picked randomly from the group of 4 papers.  Strong math students (2) had imposed discipline on the weak (2), but they couldn't be sure they showed all the work.  This is pretty ridiculous.  Points higher than typical quiz.[/quote]

I do not mind the idea of teaching collaborative problem solving, or of having the strong sharpen their skills by explaining to the weak.  What does not make sense to me is using this as a quiz, all tasks, grade.  Seems like a day could be devoted to this, but make it practice prep.[/quote]

More than likely this was a group lesson and the OP doesn't know what is going on. [/quote]

OP here, interesting discussion.  If I do not know what is going on, neither does my kid.  Report was that it was a 20 point AT quiz[/quote]
What’s the size (points) of the test? I give a 10 point group quiz (90% category) for review in an AP Science. The actual test completed individually is 50 points.[/quote]

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