Is there a clinical diagnosis for depression resulting from grading algebra exams? There should be. Over the course of the last few days I finished grading all of my algebra exams that I gave last week. I have to say that I am utterly disappointed by some of the results. It really has been one of the worst first exams that I have had the opportunity to grade over the course of the last 6 years. I want to take some of the responsibility for their poor performance but there was just a huge lack of basic skill presented in their papers.
I continually harp on the need to interpret your answers back into the context of a real world problem and ask whether or not the answer even makes reasonable sense. I was just speechless when I saw the answers:
….How fast was the car going in the mountainous region? Answer: 533 miles per hour
….How many quarts of paint will it take to paint a room with a perimeter of 70 feet and a height of 6 feet? Answer: 1426 quarts.
Are you kidding me?
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