It’s that time of the semester: when a professor’s fancy turns to grading. You can see exactly how much It’s that time of the semester: when a professor’s fancy turns to grading. You can see exactly ...

This article shares the authors' experiences in mathematics teacher education regarding professional development for teachers with a focus on student participation as an opportunity to learn. They ...

This post is by Kyna Airriess, a 9th grade student at Gary and Jerri Ann Jacobs High Tech High. In third grade I decided I didn’t like math. I wasn’t good at it, and I simply wasn’t going to pay it ...

When I began teaching, I adopted the common practice of grading student participation. I set aside 10 percent of my students’ grades for that purpose, and did my best to keep track of how much they ...

Faculty must report academic participation when assigning an “F” grade. Faculty will select from three failure options that show how a student participated in class(es). Students receiving a failing ...

I read with interest Anna Broadbent’s essay on the benefits and pitfalls of class participation grades. From my perch as a provost, former dean and former department chair, I find that the grade for ...

The syllabus for Pre-Algebra (Math 1090), one of the courses within the Developmental Mathematics Program in the Department of Mathematics at Western Michigan University, offers information to help ...