In the fall of 2024, Citizen Math released updated versions of every lesson in our library, plus a few new ones! We know you may have already prepped an earlier version or planned a repeat of last year, so we're continuing to make these earlier versions available through Thursday December 5, 2024.
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How should students be graded? Most grading systems focus on where a student ended up rather than the progress a student made. As a result, a student who goes from a 100 to a 95 will get an A, while a student who goes from a 40 to a 60 will still fail.
In this lesson, students use percent change to evaluate how changes to a grading policy would affect students and discuss the fairest way to balance mastery with effort.