Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction

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@Jophiel

Maybe you can noodle it out or mentally eyeball it as its own problem but that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to do the same when it’s part of a more intensive multistep math process. Showing your work seems pretty important.

Indeed. I appreciate and still think about a post that @Left_Hand_of_Dorkness made a few years ago:

Oxford University gave students 15 extra minutes to take exams.

I am rage-twitching. Two weeks ago I gave my kids a computerized math test, required by my district, along with a sheet of paper. “SHOW YOUR WORK,” I demanded, in keeping with what I’ve been telling them all year. The test is adaptive (changes according to student responses), and shows progress from the beginning of the year. Four kids either showed minimal progress from the beginning of the year or actually dropped in scores. So I called them over, showed them their scores, and showed them …