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Okay, not actually true but again, a clever way to get more hits to this page!

The REAL title should have been, "But Mister, How Can I Have a D?"  This year I have many 10th and 11th graders, with maybe less than 10% freshman and 10% seniors but they all have 4th grade math skills when it comes to grading.

Most of our assignments are in the 15 - 25 point range.  About 3 weeks ago we had an assignment that was worth 60 points, we had a week to turn it in and about 4 days in class to work on it.  Sixty points.

Now a month later our progress reports have come out and I get "what happened to my grade?  How did I go from an A to a D" (or B to an F).  I turned everything in!   


Well , it looks like in the grade book that you did turn in everything except the biggest assignment of the year .  Taking a zero out of 60 is like taking four zeros on smaller 15 point assignments. Looks like your percentage went from 92 to 64%.

Basic math.  Percentages.  I am no scholar but a little middle school math will help you in many ways. And guess what?  Some of these students who never turned in their assignment and wonder why their grade plummeted are in trigonometry or calculus.  I guess they don't teach common sense in those advanced classes.