Harriet
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How to assess student writing in math
Posted:
Nov 23, 1998 8:19 AM
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I've taught Investigations for two years (grade 3) and I always
struggle with how to assess students' work that involves writing.
Sometimes they are very clear about explaining their steps and why
they did them, but their reasoning or calculations are wrong. Other
times their explaining is lousy but I can figure out what they did and
it works and is accurate.
How are other people grading this kind of work? Do I give separate
grades for explaining vs. efficient strategy and accuracy?
What about the kid who has writing difficulties? Do I continually
penalize him when his mathematics might be good?
I would appreciate hearing what others have done with this issue.
Harriet
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