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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 7th grade DD has been pretty frustrated with her math grade.  She studies hard and gets nearly all the answers right on her tests but is being graded down for technical nits in her work.

For example, at the end of a long word problem, she ended up with the correct answer of 1.96 (example).  However, she forgot to put x=1.96 on the “show your work” section and only wrote “1.96” at the end.  She was correct with x=1.96 in the answer box, but lost half the points for that problem anyway.  [b]Another example is that she’ll use the “not equal” symbol at the end of her “show your work”, gave the correct answer in the yes/no format the test asked for; however the teacher also wanted her to write “False” at the end of her “show your work” so lost points for that.  [/b]

It’s very strange to me, since we were graded on the final answer when I went to school.  Show your work was needed to show your thinking, but we weren’t graded down for these types of “errors”.  Has that changed?  Is this teacher-specific or how it works in FCPS math? It seems that even if you get the answer right, there’s always risk of getting graded down for technical matters in how you show your work.  [/quote]

This is also absurd. [/quote]

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