Monthly Archives: July 2015

Daily quiz for practice in SBG

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Andy Rundquist

Yesterday I wrote about a hare-brained scheme designed to get students to do more practice/homework in my Standards-Based Grading (SBG) implementation. Today here’s another one. Back when I graded homework/practice I felt that I was bad at holding the line … Continue reading →

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Homework in Standards-based grading

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Andy Rundquist

One of my biggest struggles last year teaching general physics 2 (calc-based) using Standards-Based Grading was my inability to convince students to practice problem solving. On the first day when I was laying out my philosophy someone said “so there’s … Continue reading →

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Rugby ball bouncing

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Andy Rundquist

A friend of mine was telling me that when you play rugby, you can count on the ball bouncing up nice and high for you every third bounce. He showed me in the gym how that’s basically true and I’ve … Continue reading →

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