Post-Test Notes and Tomorrow

Friday, January 13 - FRODOLAND!
Come prepared to help your group with your Frodoland map.  Do you remember what you said you would bring?

Good start to the negatives unit test.  I say "start," because several of you still have some details to complete in your mastery of this unit.  Unfortunately, it's not an area that you can decide a skill is not important ... it is like knowing all of your multiplication tables except the 4s: there will be a chunk of math that is beyond your reach until you do.  Having said that, EVERYONE showed improvement and should be proud of that progress!

Your grades are now on TeacherEase along with your breakdown for each section.  Please check your scores, especially if you are prone to not handling news well (either over-enthusiastically or with utter devastation).  I would like to think that everyone is able to look at this test more simply as an evaluation of where they are IN this learning process, but some of you still see it as a competition and/or a test of your overall intelligence.  It is neither!!!  Some of you WILL need to buckle down and practice the things you don't yet know, but that's just a part of the master plan anyway.

The retest will be before the end of January.  I still need to evaluate when the best date will be in the grander scheme of our classwork, but I will not put if off for long.  You will receive plenty of warning.

The next steps are:  1) Receive your test on Friday, 1/13, 2) make the corrections (assignment due January 17 for one candy point if signed), and 3) decide which (if any) of the sections you would like to retest.  You will always receive your BETTER scores, regardless. 

No homework tonight, but come prepared for Frodoland on Friday;
Mo ;-)