Checklist is a great idea. I have a checklist that only I see, but serves a similar purpose, for each student.
BTW on practice tests: I always spend some time selectively going over questions that the students got right. Is the student using the fastest way to solve each question? Are there clues in the question that will form a hypothesis that one might use to guide oneself towards the answer with greater confidence? (such as a root-2 or root-2 lurking near a triangle?)
I recently helped a student shave about two minutes off his SAT hard module working entirely with questions he always got right, but was doing the slow way.
I like that addition! This is actually one of my main reasons for defending the often-hated timer on Mathchops -- it catches inefficiencies that I otherwise might miss via practice tests.
Also, I didn't want to make the post too long, but the checklist items could also be based on my own guesstimates -- 'general comprehension level', 'vocabulary', 'consistently applies strategies'. I could see 'solving strategy efficiency' as one of those.
Checklist is a great idea. I have a checklist that only I see, but serves a similar purpose, for each student.
BTW on practice tests: I always spend some time selectively going over questions that the students got right. Is the student using the fastest way to solve each question? Are there clues in the question that will form a hypothesis that one might use to guide oneself towards the answer with greater confidence? (such as a root-2 or root-2 lurking near a triangle?)
I recently helped a student shave about two minutes off his SAT hard module working entirely with questions he always got right, but was doing the slow way.
Speed savings: check!
I like that addition! This is actually one of my main reasons for defending the often-hated timer on Mathchops -- it catches inefficiencies that I otherwise might miss via practice tests.
Also, I didn't want to make the post too long, but the checklist items could also be based on my own guesstimates -- 'general comprehension level', 'vocabulary', 'consistently applies strategies'. I could see 'solving strategy efficiency' as one of those.
Great food for thought, Mike!