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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t actually think retakes are the problem. Khan Academy, for example, offers infinite retakes. The problem is that many schools never tell students that the goal is mastery. They do not understand that they need to accumulate knowledge and skills. I’m sure they’re capable of it. I’m sure every one of them has some huge store of facts about their favorite show or artist, and has learned a dozen tricks from TikTok makeup tutorials. They just don’t understand they’re also supposed to accumulate the information and skills that they encounter in school.[/quote]

I don't think just telling the students the goal is mastery is going to solve the problem. [/quote]

its not the students that need to be told- its the teachers and the Dept of education/boards of education that assess teacher performance. Grades should reflect mastery of the material, should be maybe 30% effort effort and we know that teachers feel bad fr kids and give them too much credit for effort.  [/quote]

Or test kids at the beginning of grade 9 and make high school graduation contingent on mastering three more levels of math from that point, whatever it is. Learning to learn is the most valuable lesson most kids take from high school math anyway.

Right now most states require 360 hours in a math classroom (three “Carnegie units”) to graduate from high school, which is an insane way to measure learning. [/quote]

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