The Fischbowl Again

This time I chose to read the February blog, the title of this blog was "A Formula for Success." In this blog the lady is discussing the fact that many test require the students to have one "right" answer, when some times the right answer is not really waht is most important. Many times the students are focused on the right answer and do not really understand what it is that they are really doing. Or more than that how they can apply that math skill to a "real life" problem.

I think this is a really GREAT point. When I was in high school many of my math teachers would not take off if we did the problem right but got the wrong answer. It was the process that was most important. I think that this is very important because there are many tiems that people and students will make mistakes in doing a math problem but if a teacher can look at the work and see that he or she knew what they were doing and just made a mistake in the process then I believe that the student should still get credit for the problem. This is where standardized test would have a problem though. In this case there is no way to check for the process only the "right" answer.