Questions and Answers

Questions and Answers - Questions raised as a result of the experiences and include your personal thoughts as to a solution/answer to your question. (These could be inquisitive questions, musings, wonderment questions, or future research questions.)

After finishing the first half of the course, I have some questions. One question I have is about the tests. I did not do nearly as well as I thought I would on the 2nd test, and I am wondering what all is taken into consideration when grading them? After the 2nd test, I thought I would do much better than I did, and was very disappointed when I saw my score. My views on teaching mathematics are certainly going to be different than the instructors at this point as I am still a student myself, and I found a lot of the questions to be rather open to interpretation. I also question what else is taken into consideration for grading in this class? I know it may sound as if I am only concerned with grades, but when you are this close to the finish line, it would be extremely disappointing to take a class over and delay graduation. Some solutions I could find to these problems would be to take into consideration the students response to the test questions, and realize that they may be viewing the question froma different point than the instructor, and to put yourself in the students shoes to understand their rationale. I would also hope that the small in class assignments are taken into consideration while grading, though I don't know if they can make up for the lost points on the test. Anyway, these are my questions and answers for now, and I'm sure I'll have many more as the semester goes on.