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Feb. 9th 2009
==== Today, students had a pop quiz in math. Earlier in the year students were learning their multiplication facts, but today there was a pop quiz given on random times tables. After speaking with my cooperative teacher, I learned that some students were still struggling with their multiplication facts. Because they have been working on long division, it is important to know your times tables. The teacher had found silly multiplication errors when correcting their long division homework, so he decided to give them a pop quiz, to see who really knows their times tables, and who needs to continue to work on them. ==== ==== The quiz was made up of 12 problems, and students were given 10 minutes to complete the quiz. After the quizzes were handed in, I was able to correct them, while the teacher taught the math lesson for that day. Students did extremely well! Every student but 2 were able to get all 12 of the problems right; while one student got 11 out of 12 and the other got 9 out of 12. ==== ==== I personally don’t like pop quizzes, but in this case I thought that this was an effective way to test the students. Because the teacher had seen so many careless mistakes while correcting homework, this was a way to really find out if the students knew their multiplication facts. After seeing the grades, the teacher knew that most of the class knew their times tables, but it was that they weren’t checking their work while doing their homework. Instead of picking out the two students who didn’t get 100’s, the teacher addressed the whole class, and stressed the importance of knowing your multiplication facts, as well as checking your work. ====