She wouldn't let me mark in red pen, because she says they find it dispiriting. Is that common practice?
It was the trend a while ago. I don't remember exactly when, but for a while, all the stores were selling packages of purple pens for teachers who didn't want to grade in red. From what I've seen, it seems to not really be the trend anymore. I usually mark in other colors, because I don't like looking at all that red, and I've (totally unscientifically) noticed that my students seem to be more likely to actually read the comments written in purple or green or turquoise, while they mostly just look at the things they got wrong when it's written in red. That could be totally my imagination, though.
I be smart! No, wait, I be trying hard!
Yay!
so I spent several minutes analyzing where I went wrong
I wish I could find a good way to teach students to do this.
they had some things coded by color, so you couldn't even sort it automatically, so stupid
In Excel, you can sort by color.
I prefer marking hard copy, like I said. I just thought it was going away. It has in much of publishing.
God, I love editing on hard copy. I miss it SO MUCH. I hate editing in Word. Hate it like burning. Fuck you, "track changes." Fuck you hard.
In Excel, you can sort by color.
By color of the cell? Or color of the text? ETA: Oh, lookit that, you can sort on both! How interesting.
And frankly, I don't think these folks knew how to do that--I'm a frakkin' Excel genius compared to them. I think their sorting was by hand.
The problem with editing on paper is that no one can read my handwriting.
ETA: Oh, lookit that, you can sort on both! How interesting.
Yep, by both/either.
It's not nearly as useful as sorting alphanumerically, because you can't do it automatically A-Z, you need to manually tell Excel "blue first, then green, etc etc"
But it comes in handy for me when I mark restricted stuff in red and want to put it all at the top so the client can clearly see what they'll need to replace.
I wish I could find a good way to teach students to do this.
What I like about the Lattice Multiplication is that it reinforces the importance of the 0 as a place holder. That's what messed me up on the other method, I didn't put in the 00's, I just wrote down the relevant numbers, so I got my columns misaligned.
I redid the process to double-check my math and got the same result, then I looked at the numbers I got when I multiplied the 1's, 10's, and 100s, and added them together with the relevant 00s. That's when I realized my 100s number was assuming too many 00s.
This may be related to why I can do tech support and others can't, I can break things down into component parts.
M teaches at a state university and all his students submit their papers in hard copy. For, you know, another bit of anecdata.
Man, I forgot how much I love plain old pita bread with hummus and olives for lunch. (Yogurt for protein later.) So good.
I'm curious about Lattice Multiplication now.
